Google docs flashing green and unable to add citations/ bibliography or anything

ashwanthi

Hello,
I am panicking a little bit.188BET靠谱吗I was working on my thesis and adding a citation on google docs, when zotero suddenly will no longer do anything.Every time I try to click add citation, one of two things happen.1.Nothing happens.2.188BET靠谱吗The citation bar pops up and I type my source and click to add and then the screen starts flashing green and zotero starts searching every letter "e" in the document.188BET靠谱吗I tried to move the document to word, but zotero gives 0 response when I click anything there.I have tried opening/closing/restarting everything.I tried to just add my bibliography so I don't lose it, but that does nothing.I have not saved the bibliography anywhere so it's a big problem.I have my thesis submission in 24 hours so I am freaking out majorly.Please help
188BET靠谱吗https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u14146678/w4jqe5dporyu2f49mfci.png

dstillman

It's this, but with an "e" instead of a period:

188BET靠谱吗https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/108764/google-doc-is-cycling

You edited a citation by accident to include only an "e", and on Google Docs it has to scan the document for each "e" because of that.See what I say there to fix.

dstillman

188BET靠谱吗I tried to move the document to word, but zotero gives 0 response when I click anything there.

We can also help you debug this if you want to move to Word, but we'd need a Report IDto start.

ashwanthi

I saw your comment in that discussion but did not have luck/ maybe I did not know what to find.I moved my doc to word and enabled the field code, but I'm not sure what I am looking for?

dstillman

If you toggle field codes in Word, you can scroll through your document and look for a code block in the middle of a word in place of the letter 'e'.

188BET靠谱吗If you don't mind sending your document to support@zotero.org with a link to this thread, we can also probably just find this for you.

ashwanthi

Ok will send the email right now.

dstillman

You didn't actually follow the transfer steps— you just downloaded the file from Google Docs.You'd have to do a proper document transfer to work with the file in Word.

ashwanthi

I was able to find the error with the field code, and now its working again.Thank you!