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• A little more investigation suggests this is linked to an internal Zotero state. When I copy or rename the document, Zotero works as normal, but whenever I rename the document to its original file name, the error returns.

  in Message: "You must place the cursor in a Zotero citation to edit it" Comment by ms609 January 8, 2026
• I updated today to 8.0-beta.24+faf8f2510 (64-bit) and the error persists (though I now see a progress bar momentarily before the popup appears). On a separate Win11 machine, Word crashes silently when I attempt to add/edit citations within this doc…

  in Message: "You must place the cursor in a Zotero citation to edit it" Comment by ms609 January 8, 2026
• Grand, thanks!

  in Metadata in journal abbreviation list outdated Comment by ms609 May 18, 2022
• I've now found the Preference "Open PDFs using..." under Edit → Preferences, which works as advertised.

  in How do I open PDFs externally? Comment by ms609 April 26, 2022
• Great answer, thank you!

  in Location of "Export Format" files Comment by ms609 April 23, 2020
• Columns are now remembering their positions – thank you!

  in Column order reset when restarting Zotero Comment by ms609 June 24, 2019
• All other preference changes appear to persist after a restart.

  in Column order reset when restarting Zotero Comment by ms609 June 20, 2019
• That explains it – indeed the source code behind the citation (Shift-F9) had, oddly, split "family":"Morris","given":"Simon Conway". I hadn't realised that Zotero would overwrite Mendeley's citation data. Great to learn that I don't have to replac…

  in Two-part surnames Comment by ms609 June 19, 2019
• Thanks for your suggestions. Yes, I've entered the name as [Conway Morris] [Simon]. Clicking the blue button does not bring up a "show in my library" option, but there is only one matching citation in my library, and inserting it again into the do…

  in Two-part surnames Comment by ms609 June 19, 2019