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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 👍

Hi Virginia. I am glad that the video helped you out. That is awesome! ⭐

Thank you kindly for the heart-warming words! They mean a lot to me. 🙏🏼

You are welcome! I am glad it helped. 🤗

have you been able to figure it out?

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.

You are welcome Antanas! :)

You are welcome! 😊

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.

You are very welcome! 🤗

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! 🤗

Good to hear that it was helpful my friend. Thank you for your kind comment! ❤

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! ❤

Thank you for the kind words! I am glad it helped. :)

Thank you kindly! 🙏🏼

Thank you for the kind words! 🙏🏼

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.