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To retrieve a hidden Find Text window of MZ-Tools

  1. … close all your other undocked windows in VBE Editor.
  2. Must have been hidden during inadvertent docking and took me a while…

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Back in flyover country…

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Categories: animated-GIFs, Personal

Customized Quick Access Toolbar

word-Customized-Quick-Access-Toolbar

Easing access to some important tools for serious  writing – and configuration that can not be done in a template,but is per machine…

Fun with Zotero inserting citations and bibliographies

  1. If you can install Zotero’s word processor add-ins (for LibreOffice Writer or MS-Word).:
      1. Here are the self-explanatory tool tips of the command buttons for the MS-Word add-in: zotero-ribbon-addins-command-buttons-tooltips
      2. Here is the add-in in action, inserting first one, than multiple citations, followed by generation of a bibliography:

    zotero-how-to-insert-1-or-many-citations&generate-bibliography

  2. 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; zotero-create-bibliography-from-item2clipboard2word

Fun with Zotero managing bibliographic references

  1. Curation: word-create-list-style-with-errors
  2. Deduplication: zotero-merge-duplicates

Fun with MS-Word inserting boilerplate text from the Quick part gallery

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Consistency through reuse.

Fun with MS-Word’s multilevel lists from the QAT style dropdown

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We can nest controls in repeating content controls, including repeating content controls

  1. Just saying, since it seems not easy to find within web search results the ones that nest nesting….
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  4. Have not tried accessing the results in OpenXML yet which will have to be done  via the control ID
    1. since repeating:  Repeating-Section-content-control-in-action
    2. does not autoincrement the titles and tags. image