I'm working on a approx. 250 pages long Word document, using MacOS system. Zotero is not responding when I tried to insert citations or add bibliography. I read some responses in the forum that disabl

- edit Word .docx text and add selected Zotero references as live Zotero citation fields. Open the word doc and hit Refresh in Zotero addin to update and reformat bibliography

Can you take step back and explain what you would like Zotero to do exactly? It doesn't seem like you're using it for referencing (which is what the Word add-on is for). I don't think there's a way to

Issue 2: if I open a new document to restart the verification process, the names are correct with the linked citations BUT they do not show up in my library with a new word document. But isn't Zotero

I cannot add/edit citation on Word Processor.

Word-boundary truncation isn't supported natively, but you can approximate it with replaceFrom:

Hi! Is there a way to truncate according to number of words and not character count in the renaming field? Or to delete the word that "truncate" cuts in half? I found nothing in the documentation...

The issue continues on Tahoe 26.5 and Word/Office 365 Family (newly installed on May 12, 2026).

I cant get the Zotero tab to appear in Word ribbon.

I write out my papers in notion first, not word. Previously, I would write the citations in a separate word document and then, on my main paper, I would write, for example, [4] to refer to paper numbe

No synchronization in my Zotero account so I cannot upload the sources from my Library to my Word document.

Hi I have problems with citations in Google docs after my zotero was automatically updated. The citation will keep loading, or it will say (updating) in the document. Or I get the warning 'A word pro

2. Footnotes in general, and in Word/LO/GDoc specifically, don't allow recurring numbers: they're always ascending from one to the next

Hi there, we are using Zotero in large Word files (stored in a cloud to be able to collaborate). Unfortunately, Zotero takes forever in these files to refresh citations (using the plugin for Word), so

What you propose works well in general, but it _will_ break any links of items currently cited in Word (or Google/LO) documents. If that's a concern, this is trickier to do (best option then might be

Checkbox is greyed out - return does nothing. Z is communicating with Word as I can tweak the biblio...

Can you take a screenshot of the Zotero tab in Word? Could you provide a Debug ID from Zotero for an attempt to insert a citation?

I am experiencing a recurring issue when attempting to insert citations in Microsoft Word using Zotero. Each time I try to add a citation, an error window appears with the following message in Arabic:

I have tried troubleshooting, but no luck so far.

Thanks, @dstillman. This does let me do that, but I prefer the list mode because it does not take up most of the screen (when entering references I often need to see the word text--e.g., to insert pa