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  • @Cate, you can probably do what you say and export from Zotero & import to EndNote, but I'd experiment if I were you. EndNote has a similar problem to Zotero with IDs - it uses sequential numbers which refelect the state of your particular datab…
    in Library gone missing Comment by ptsefton May 17, 2007
  • This raises a question for one of the Zotero folks. How should Cate back up her stuff? One strategy is to export your references periodically and back up the exported files, but be aware that if you are trying to use the Word plugin to format …
    in Library gone missing Comment by ptsefton May 15, 2007
  • Returning to IDs. There is a real problem with the current model. I have tried exporting references, getting someone else to import them and trying to format a bibliography with the plugin, but it fails because of the arbitrary IDs assigned by …
    in Word plugin status update Comment by ptsefton May 10, 2007
  • @Bruce: Regarding the VBA support in the Mac version of Word. In a university setting like ours there are two options. One is to offer NeoOffice / Writer to the Mac users - once we get a bibliographic solution this is viable. I think MS are re…
    in Word plugin status update Comment by ptsefton May 9, 2007
  • Thanks Dan, Leaving aside the ID issue for a bit I'd like to talk about the Word / Writer plugin. There' s fundamental question to be answered here. Are you at Zotero concerned with interoperability between word and Writer via the .doc format? To…
    in Word plugin status update Comment by ptsefton May 9, 2007
  • I'll add my thanks for the update. I am from the ICE content management project, which hired Ian to do his work. We're very pleased with his approach of combining the two versions into one macro with compiler directives for the platform specif…
    in Word plugin status update Comment by ptsefton May 8, 2007
  • Ian Laurenson has done some work, sponsored by the University of Southern Queensland, to adapt the plugi so it will work in both Word and OpenOffice.org (from the same code!). It's working, with some bugs. Ian has posted here asking about getting it…
    in Word/(OpenOffice) plugin plans? Comment by ptsefton May 7, 2007
  • Forgot to mention I am using 1.0.0b4.r5.r1450
    in Can't export twice with the same name Comment by ptsefton April 30, 2007
  • Thanks Dan. Happy to talk about this further. I have another question about the code: it doesn't seem to have a license on it that I could see in the macro editor. Have I overlooked something? Is it possible to get a version under an open source li…
    in Format for embedding citations in word processors Comment by ptsefton March 6, 2007