Clicking on Add/Edit Citation brings up the main Zotero window. The citation dialog is not behind it. I have restarted both Zotero and Word. I didn't see where in the article that you linked to it men

Hi allI I am in the middle of editing a huge manuscript with deadlines coming up, and my Zotero will no longer let me add citations to my documents. I click on "Add/Edit Citation" in my Word plug-in r

all to be authors, "anon" stopped appearing in Word. Hope this helpes someone!

I'm not able to use Zotero from Word - I can see the icons in Word and have Zotero open. I keep getting a message stating Word cannot connect to Zotero. I can't see the option to download the plugin e

Restart both Zotero and your word processor. - DID SO

Right, but then that's no longer a new document that you're creating from scratch — that's a copy of your existing document. So follow the Troubleshooting Errors in Word Processor Documents steps thro

I now started a completely new document in Word (just opened word from my Desktop) an made some citations in the empty document for testing. - it worked without errors

What are the exact steps to reproduce this, including the steps of starting up Word and starting a new, empty document?

1. Zotero worked fine with document exported to Word (.docx)

Yes, again, you always have to save your document as .docx, which is the default Word format. If you go out of your way to save in another, non-Microsoft format, you will break your citations.

If it works in a new, empty document and you're only having a problem with a specific existing document, see Troubleshooting Errors in Word Processor Documents, which is linked from that error dialog.

No, you have to save as .docx, Word's default format. And if the reviewers are editing the file in LibreOffice, you'd have to switch to Bookmarks mode in the plugin's Document Preferences window, whic

@yokokumano: We'll need a Report ID and the exact Word version.

Yes. Though depending on what you mean by "documents", note that we don't recommend storing editable documents like Word documents in Zotero. File storage is meant primarily for PDFs and other researc

@dstillman Does the field code of citations containing the "abstract" and other unnecessary terms effect the performance of Word? Will it slow Word?

Inserting a citation in MS Word is not always slow, it only happens when the location of insert is at the middle or the upper part of the text(when rolling back to add a new citation). If the insert i

Zotero doesn't control fonts in any way (and I don't think Mendeley does either). To modify that, you can modify the "Bibliography" style in Word.

I'm new to Zotero (been using Mendeley for many years, but recently had compatibility troubles with Word, which Zotero does not seem to have). But one thing I liked about Mendeley was the simplicity o

For the actual issue in this thread, even without a context menu you should be able to just select the word in question and press Cmd-Ctrl-D to run lookup on just the selected text. That's just not cu

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