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How to sign a PDF document
Have you ever been asked to sign and return a PDF document and wondered how to do so? Maybe you thought it was better to print it out, sign the printed copy with a pen, scan the signed paper hopefully into a PDF file, and then attach it to an email before you send it back. But, that is not he best way to sign a PDF document.
In this video, I show you a better way. I will show you how to use a freely-available PDF editor called PDF-XChange Portable to sign your PDF and get it ready to be sent back to whoever asked for it. You don’t have to print it out first after all.
In this video, I show you a better way. I will show you how to use a freely-available PDF editor called PDF-XChange Portable to sign your PDF and get it ready to be sent back to whoever asked for it. You don’t have to print it out first after all.
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How Zotero works inside LibreOffice Writer
Просмотров 12 тыс.3 года назад
Now that you have installed Zotero and integrated it with your browser and wordprocessor (Firefox and LibreOffice Writer in my case), let us have a closer look at how Zotero works inside LibreOffice Writer. This video goes a bit deeper into the Zotero-LO Writer integration. I will explain, in more details, ho to add new entries into Zotero, how to insert citation in a LibreOffice Writer documen...
Zotero integration with browsers (e.g. Firefox) and word-processors (e.g. LibreOffice Writer)
Просмотров 5 тыс.3 года назад
In this video I will explain how Zotero can be integrated with Firefox and LibreOffice Writer by using Zotero's "browser connector" (that is an add-on) and Zotero's extension for LibreOffice. You can use the same tutorial to connect any Chrome-based browser ("Chromium-based" to be correct) to Zotero. Also, Microsoft Word and OpenOffice will work the same as LibreOffice with minor differences th...
What is Zotero and how to install it
Просмотров 7173 года назад
In this video I explain what Zotero is, where you can download it from, and how you can install it on your computer. Chapters: 00:00 Start 00:09 Introduction to citation and citation management 05:38 Citation managers 06:47 Zotero 09:41 Where can you download Zotero from? 12:21 How to install Zotero once you downloaded its setup/installer package? 14:36 Closing remarks: Java Runtime installatio...
Comparing Microsoft Word vs. LibreOffice Writer and why you should use LibreOffice - Part 6
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.3 года назад
This is the fifth video in a series of videos explaining some differences between MS Word and LibreOffice Writer. This video will show you how each program deals with styles and direct formatting. Short Fiction - Edgar Allan Poe (standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fiction) Music: Final Step by Rafael Krux (www.orchestralis.net/)
Comparing Microsoft Word vs. LibreOffice Writer and why you should use LibreOffice - Part 5
Просмотров 2193 года назад
This is the fifth video in a series of videos explaining some differences between MS Word and LibreOffice Writer. This video will show you how MS Word and LO Writer deal with an ODT file that is made by the other program.
Comparing Microsoft Word vs. LibreOffice Writer and why you should use LibreOffice - Part 4
Просмотров 1373 года назад
This is the forth video in a series of videos explaining some differences between MS Word and LibreOffice Writer. This video will show you how Word and Writer are different in the way they treat and apply styles, how they go about letting the user modify the styles, how they present the applied styles in the list of the styles that are applied, and so on. The way that MS Word lists the applied ...
Comparing Microsoft Word vs. LibreOffice Writer and why you should use LibreOffice - Part 3
Просмотров 1773 года назад
This is the third video in a series of videos explaining some differences between MS Word and LibreOffice Writer. This video will show you what happens when you mix two different scripts, a Latin and a complex script such as Persian, inside one document. Both MS Word and LibreOffice choke on the task in different ways.
Comparing Microsoft Word vs. LibreOffice Writer and why you should use LibreOffice - Part 2
Просмотров 4943 года назад
This is the second video in a series of videos explaining some differences between MS Word and LibreOffice Writer. This video will show you how Word differs from Writer when you try to modify pre-defined styles. I will walk you through the steps and you will see which program does the job better.
Comparing Microsoft Word vs. LibreOffice Writer and why you should use LibreOffice - Part 1
Просмотров 6 тыс.3 года назад
This is the first video in a series of videos explaining some differences between MS Word and LibreOffice Writer. This video will show you the first few steps of working in a document and how they are different in the two software. I will copy and paste an article from an encyclopedia, clean it up, and try to change the fonts for a few headings in both programs. You will see them in action and ...
Basic tutorial on how to use FreeFyleSync software
Просмотров 7 тыс.8 лет назад
This is a very basic tutorial that shows you how to use a program called FreeFileSync on a Windows machine.
How to search for images on Google - a tutorial for beginners
Просмотров 3010 лет назад
This is a tutorial made for absolute beginners. In this tutorial I explain how to do a simple Google search for images.
How to do a simple search on google.com - a tutorial for beginners
Просмотров 13910 лет назад
This is a tutorial made for absolute beginners. In this tutorial I am going to explain how to do a simple Google search. In producing this video I assumed the followings about the viewers: 1- They have access to a computer 2- They have a web browser (like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, etc.) 3- They know how to use a keyboard (i.e. they know what the keys such as Ente...
I installed the Zotero extension in LibreOffice. It works. But ever since I installed this extension, every time I do a copy/paste or a cut/paste, it closes LibreOffice. Can you help me? This is really annoying! Thank you so much !!
Hi there, Diagnosing a crash like that with no access to the computer nor having any ability to reproduce the crash is usually impossible. There are only a few trial-n-error things you can do that might help, or not: 1- Uninstall both LibreOffice and Zotero 2- Install a nightly build of LibreOffice and Zotero instead, and see how they might behave. You can get the nightly build for LibreOffice from here: dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/Win-x86_64@tb77-TDF/current/ And Zotero’s nightly build from here: github.com/tefkah/zotero-night/releases Will these steps work? Possibly. Who knows. If the crash is due to something fundamental, then the best bet would be to file a bug report at Zotero project for them to look into the issue. I hope this helps you with the issue.
@@EricBright thank you so much for your answer. I will try that 👍
Thank you this was very helpful!
Hola Eric!!! gracias por tu video!! It has helped me a lot and it is really well explained!
Hi Virginia. I am glad that the video helped you out. That is awesome! ⭐
Thank you so much Eric for your help. I could never have done it without you. Greetings from Sweden :)
This series is priceless. Thank you. I am not an academic but I like neatly organized sources, so this is perfect and your tutorial filled the gaps all the other tutorials left hanging. I subscribed.
Thank you kindly for the heart-warming words! They mean a lot to me. 🙏🏼
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Such a detailed explanation, thank you so very much!
Thank you very much .. helped me alot
Thank you very much for explaining in such great detail.
Microsoft uses an older ODF version than LibreOffice (In LO, you can change the used ODF version in the settings)
Wow! Thank you. I don't know how to thank you for saving my nerves and energy.
You are welcome! I am glad it helped. 🤗
I faced a lot of problem with connecting zotero with LibreOfficeWriter in Ubuntu due to Java Runtime env. It made me crazy. would you mind make video about it with details.
have you been able to figure it out?
The reason why CTRL+A did not highlight whole document in LOW is that there is probably some hidden table inherited from the original document. CTRL+A will highlight parent object with each consecutive click. E.g. one CTRL+A in table will highlight single cell, second click will highlight whole table, third click will escape from the table and highlight everything the table was nested in ...
Thank you! Very nice and easy to follow tutorial :)
Is there a setting that there is a link connection between the citation in my text to my literature list?
Hi. If you mean a link inside of your text to click on and to automatically get to the corresponding entry in your Zotero database, then the answer is no. There is no such external link. Everything inside the document is connected via behind-the-scene links and codes. That’s how Zotero can tell which in-text citation belongs to which reference. But those links are internal to the document and will not take you to Zotero. Zotero understands them when it sees them and then it acts accordingly. Those links go nowhere outside of the document though.
@@EricBright I meant within my document. If I have citation like (example, 2023) and I click on it I will linked to my „References“ part with full citation of (example, 2023).
The in-text citation is “linked” to the references in a different sense: they are related and Zotero can see the relationship. They are not “linked” in a common sense so nothing happens inside of your document when you click on them. I guess you might have something like an endnote in mind, where clicking on the endnote in the text will make the word-processor to jump to the corresponding note at the end of your document. Citations don’t do that. They are not clickable in that sense.
@@EricBright Is there a way that they behave like that?
@@cypherecon5989 I don’t think so. The Zotero mechanism for in-text citation is not meant to do that (or I have not seen such a feature in Zotero so far). Zotero’s use of “Bookmarks” in .docx documents is such that they are formatted and used for Zotero’s internal use and must be left untouched. Although both MS Word and LibreOffice show them in the list of bookmarks in your document (if Zotero’s preference is set to use bookmarks instead of fields), unfortunately, they will not come with any recognizable name. If clicked in the list of your document’s bookmarks, then you will jump to the location of that particular “bookmark” in the document (which is an in-text citation). But again, they are not connected to the references the way you want them to.
My citation dialogue isn't appearing, it just brings up my Zotero screen and I'm unsure what to do. any help please?
If I didn't have to use Word and the whole Office suite for work, I would just use LibreOffice, which is great, and free. Libre is also a lot punchier, much more stable.
nice and easy😀
thanks for explanation! very helpful!
You are welcome Antanas! :)
Thank you
Thank you.
You are welcome! 😊
😁Thank you very much for this very helpfull video on ending citation chaos
Libre office is better than me office?
I don't know at the time he made the video, but today in 2022 it's already in version 7.4.3, LibreOffice has updates every 3 or 4 months, always with improvements, new features are always added, new compatibility and integrations, and today nowadays I can say that not only is it better, it also has more tools (and can enhance them with extensions), it is also being designed in the Long Term to be a more intuitive and easier to use platform, including surpassing MsOffice long-term.
thank you so much. i am a new graduate student who was finding difficulty setting it up.......thanks again
Thank you so much. This helped a lot. Cheers!!
Thanks for the Video. Sadly i have a few problems with the libre writer plugin for zotero. If i have an citation style (for example APA) which is in-text like this (Exampleauthor et al., 2022) and i want to write normal text after my citation the text will be added to the citation and is also highlighted grey. My workaround would be adding a line break than backspace so im directly behind my citation and then add for example a period. The bigger problem is that if i leave the text inside my citation and update a citation (the one with normal text in it or any other one), the normal text inside every citation will be deleted (because i "changed the citation style"). Is there any possbility of "leaving" the citation field to add text after it, or can i somehow format the text which was "added" to my citation to be normal text body without being linked to zotero? Selecting the text and changing the paragraph style to normal "text body" also doesnt work because, the citation also gets recognized as "text body" by libre.
Thank you so so much!
You are very welcome! 🤗
Very helpful. Excellent video. Simple and straight to the point.
It possible that your MRT settings are incorrect. There are several YTube videos showing how some texts (such as farsi) can be adversely affected. Libre Office is open source and therefore contributors come from all over the world. Microsoft still uses kernel programming from the 1990s in MS Office and has neglected other languages and scripts in favour of tinkering with cosmetics and trying to push customers to using One Drive.
Thank you very much for your video. I absolutely love the fact, that you use time stamps, that makes it so much easier to find the area i am interested in. Once again: thank you , you preatty much saved my day :D
Thank you for the kind words and support! It is heart-warming to know that I could help others achieve something a bit easier or avoid an issue a bit faster. I will use the feedback to do a better job next time! Thank you again for the support! 🤗
Very Helpful, Thank you Eric
Good to hear that it was helpful my friend. Thank you for your kind comment! ❤
Actually, I think you are misunderstanding the tool you used to remove formatting in Microsoft Word - which has a tooltip "Clear all formatting". It does what it says it does - it clears all formatting and returns all to "normal" style. If you want to remove just the directly applied formatting, select all and hit Ctrl-spacebar. This will leave styles in effect and remove all directly-applied formatting.
Thank you for the informative comment. 🙏 There are two issues here that I would mention: (1) in my experiment after reading your comment, it appeared that MS Word clears the character style nonetheless (that is what LibreOffice calls Character Style, and will keep when clearing direct formating), even if one uses Ctrl+Space (that is the least I have noticed. There might be other issues with that too). (2) that shortcut is not anywhere in the interface in the form of an icon, a hint, or otherwise and one has to either know it by heart or learn it some other way (i.e. it is not the default behaviour of the software). For those two reasons, although it is nice to know that Ctrl+Space can do some of the things that I had in mind, unfortunately, MS Word, as a software, fails to deliver in that department. Of course, this is a personal assessment. Thank you for sharing your tip. I will make sure I will mention it in future videos if the topic comes up again. ❤
@@EricBright OMG - I did not realize even Ctrl-space removes character styles. Here I thought there was a non-obvious command that made things act in a more useful and predictable manner. It is maybe even worse! At least with the icon to "Clear all formatting" actually does that. Thanks. Styles with Word really are a mess.
Dear @@christaylor8410 , I am still grateful for your hint about that non-obvious shortcut. It might still help others, and it will help me understand and explain things a bit less confusingly next time. I learned something interesting from you here and I thank you for that! ❤
This helped a lot. Thank you for the detailed explanation and also for the fact that you took the time to explain probable outcomes that you were not necessarily coming across yourself.
Thank you for the kind words! I am glad it helped. :)
Excellent video! Very educational and helpful.
Thank you kindly! 🙏🏼
Brilliant and detailed run down - thank you very much 👍
Thank you for the kind words! 🙏🏼
Thanks so much for your super helpful video series! On another note, seeing your library, I would recommend the book Evolution's Achilles' Heels by Robert Carter (Editor), it is a personal favourite of mine.
thanks
Thank you, it has been really helpful. While i've cited at the end of my sentence and try to continue another sentence just after the citation box then the next sentence continues from the cited words and i cant separate it from the next sentence (except when i press inter and leave a paragraph), how can i solve this issue.. thanks in advance
Hi Sachin! I am glad you found the video helpful. As for the issue you just explained, I have noticed that too. In LibreOffice, one option would be to click on Zotero’s Refresh icon. A pop-up dialogue will ask you to click on “Yes if you wan to keep the changes that you made inside the Zotero citation filed, i.e. the grey area, or click on “No” to discard the change. Clicking on No, will delete all the changes made inside the grey area and will restore the original Zotero citation (but all the extra text you added inside of that area by mistake will be deleted). Then, once that is done, you can start typing AFTER the last character of the grey area, and the text will be outside of that field.
Hi eric good videob👍