That hasn't changed. That's just the Word setting for field shading — nothing to do with Zotero specifically. Zotero inserts standard Word fields.

When I upgraded to V9 yesterday, I lost the ability to see the citations in word. It used to be when I would select the citation, sentence or paragraph, the citation (if linked) would show as slightly

If it's working in a new document, see Troubleshooting Errors in Word Processor Documents for the existing document.

I have been using Zotero for years and now all of a sudden I cant seem to add citations anymore to documents. The document is in my library. Adding citations in the google doc also opens the usual se…

I have a group library that I use for everything. Then I have a backup library. In the past the main library was always on top with the backup at the bottom. Since the most recent update, the orde…

In the end, I only had a few dozen papers to re-add to Zotero, did some checks, and corrected a few citations. Fortunately, it did not affect my Word PhD manuscript at all. I eventually managed to get

Still happening on 18 May 2026 Chicago (Notes and Bibliography). Haven't had the issue when using Word, only with Google Docs.

* For webpages, websites, and newspaper articles, I would like the word “Retrieved” to be omitted.

When adding references in Word, if two papers have the same first author and year, a letter suffix is added to differentiate them (e.g. Author, 2026a). It assigns the suffixes according to the alphabe

Anyway: herewith three screen shots: the Zotero citation-button in Word, the add citation request using that button: not showing the document, and a screen shot of the Zotero app showing the document

In Word on MAC using the button ' add/edit citation', I sometimes cannot find the desired document, while if I look in the Zotero app on my computer it does show up In Zotero, in the appropriate folde

I am using the Zotero Word plugin with APA style. I would like my in-text citations to appear in a narrative format, where the authors’ names are written directly in the text, followed immediately by

Meaning what, exactly? In what word processor?

Zotero behaves the same way in Word and Google docs:

Hi, sht_bit，I am also the one that tends to select the word while reading! I am wondering if I can make that function work in my zotero. Do you have any ideas? Thank you!

If you cannot upgrade Word, I would suggest switching to LibreOffice. If you do, follow these instructions carefully https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/moving_documents_between_word_processors

Sorry, we haven’t supported Word 2007 for years.

2007, don't judge pls. The moment I cliick on add/edit cictation button it closes itself. I mean Word

Word/LibreOffice COM integration mode.

What do you mean by “Word turns off”?