The main use case I have is that I'd like to allow individual users to display library and collection contents formatted as footnotes according to a specific style (Chicago) and directly in their brow

well, you _can_ just drag the Word file to Zotero and share the document like that, but for a whole host of reasons (no online preview, no versioning e.g.) Zotero isn't a great choice to share word do

Anything unusual you may have done with this document? Opened it in a different Word processor such as google docs or LibreOffice (assuming you're in Word--else, vice versa)?

I am trying to use Zotero as a citation manager on a chromebook to add in-text citations to google docs.

yes, unfortunately google docs, while it saves the "visible" part of your document, loses the the so called "Fields" in which Zotero stores the citation information, so anything linking the document t

as .docx and yes, I believe I did open it in google docs in between. I take it that shouldn't be done?

happen to open it in any other software (e.g. google docs) in between?

My colleagues have moved to using GDocs for everything. I have my entire library in Zotero and would like to be able to cite and do bibliographies.

The document is in docx and I share him in Google Drive and also by gmail.

The most convenient workflow for Google Docs is currently http://zotero-odf-scan.github.io/zotero-odf-scan/ Google Docs plugin is not currently being developed, but it has been discussed.

From what I can tell, there is no way to use Zotero directly with Google Docs.

I don't think we have ever seen this before. The main reason this would happen would be if you save in a format that doesn't support Word fields (.odt, .rtf) or if you intermittently open the file in

I converted a dissertation on LibreOffice to a Google docs and vice versa.

Hypothes.is integrated. Hypothes.is has shared a Google doc with a history of annotation tools. https://docs.google.com/a/ggatin.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Am32b0H2bOCCdFgwRDh6UVIxVzI4ajdadEJVTEZkX0E#g

If we use the shift drag and drop feature of Zotero into Google docs to create our citations say using APA format. Can we then convert the citations in that document from APA format to the citation ma

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h6sDLTJU3pmhgGZpmo-CkLuUUPBv6FSsYTRAn2O7zAI/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h6sDLTJU3pmhgGZpmo-CkLuUUPBv6FSsYTRAn2O7zAI/edit?usp=sharing

depends -- what you describe would only happen if you switch between LibreOffice and Word. If that's the case, it's almost certainly what happened. Also, if you opened the document in google docs some

I am moving a citation from the firefox plugin to a google doc by holding shift and dragging.

For simpler things, you can just create footnote-type citation from Zotero using right-click --> Create Bibligraphy (and then select "Note" as format) and copy&paste them to google docs. Works great f