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Inserting Word Building Blocks from Template using Ribbon or QAT

2016/06/22 plagwitz Leave a comment

Either insert from Ribbon / Insert / Quickparts:

Or for extra speed and convenience, you can have your template store access to your building from the Quick Access Toolbar:

Demo video is here.

2014/11/17 plagwitz Leave a comment

If you can install Zotero’s word processor add-ins (for LibreOffice Writer or MS-Word).:
If you cannot, you can still use the “create bibliography from items” of Zotero (which itself can be run under portable Firefox from a USB stick – no install needed at all). Here is a brief example and insert those into your writing;

2014/11/17 plagwitz Leave a comment

Consistency through reuse.

2014/11/17 plagwitz Leave a comment

Where the Zotero address bar shows you, instead of a (blue) book or (black-and-white) manuscript icon (= journal article) a yellow Manila folder, you can download a batch of references at once.
Prerequisites:
1. You could start with checking whether you can download a base bibliography for your topic from its Wikipedia article:
  1. Limitations
    1. YMMV: Not all Wikipedia articles are marked up with machine-readable metadata (but I assume more and more, even though there is also FUD over shifting standards like microformats, microdata).
    2. The automation seems not forgiving if it runs into an error:
    3. I have not seen any useful exception information during such failures (there is a Zotero debug mode, though), so trying to get overcome this obstacle is an exercise in trial and error:
2. Other most useful sites (at least if you are not affiliated with an institution of higher ed) are