Copy text with a reference copies all the bibliography

[Jeremy]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

Hi,

I have just copied a text from a former assignment with a citation and it actually copied the text + the whole bibliography of the original document to the new document.

I guess the expected behaviour would be to have only the copied citation to be added in the bibliography element.

This is very annoying.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Jeremy,

I copied a paragraph that included a footnote number and that didn't happen.

I copied a paragraph that included a parenthetical reference and that
didn't happen.

I copied an entry from the bibliography itself and that didn't happen.

You'll need to give more detail. Can't solve a problem if you can't
reproduce it.

Exactly what version of Word are you using? (See Word | About Word).

Spell out exactly what you did, step by step, to make this happen (see
the three interpretations of "copied a text with a citation" above?
eliminate all possibility of confusion).

When you say copied the bibliography--does that mean it copied an actual
text listing at the end, or that the sources in the original doc's
Citation Palette showed up in the Citation Palette for the new doc?

Can you make it happen again?

 

[Jeremy]

Hi,

Sorry for the confusion.

It pasted the sources in the citation panel, which eventually are added to the bibliography element.

It is reproducible.

A workaround seems to be pasting the item to a blank document, and then re-copying it from that blank document to the destination document. Not very convenient.

Regards.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Well, it is not reproducible here. My machine does not do this, as far
as I can tell.

EXACTLY what did you select and copy?

EXACTLY what version of Word are you using?

 

[Jeremy]

Hi Dalya,

Thanks for your concern.

I have restarted my computer and started from fresh to re-test the bug.

It is still there.

I use Word 2008 12.1.1 (French) on Mac OS X 10.5.4 (all updated).

I copied that "Universal Service Obligations (USOs) detail a precise set of provision for all users, whereas service public incorporates "(a) the need to secure supplies of a vital input and to contribute to the provision of national defence, (b) the need to defend unrepresented generations by undertaking long-term investments that would be neglected in an unregulated private industry, and (c) the objective of linking citizens so as to strengthen the nation" (Laffont & Tirole, 2000)." where (Laffont & Tirole, 2000) is a citation from a .docx document to aother one and it copied the whole citations of the document.

Would you like me to send you the documents?

Regards,

Jeremy

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Much more helpful, especially the detail re French. It's entirely
possible this is a bug in the French version but not the English, or
Tiger/Leopard, or a 12.1/12.1.1 problem (did you ever copy text like
this before, to notice whether this might be new behavior after an
update?) However, since copying into a blank document and then copying
again solved the issue, that also suggests, rather more plausibly, that
it might be a issue with a corrupted document.

Do you have other documents where you used the citation manager? Can
you see if the same thing happens with them, or create a dummy document
to test? If it's only that document showing the problem, you could try
the corrupt doc fixes--except do it on a COPY, because I'm not sure the
citations will round-trip through.
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/DocumentCorruption.html

If all your docs show the problem, I would like to test a doc on my
machine--attach it to my firstname dot lastname at gmail.com---but
notice that the firstname has an I (eye), not an L (small print on the
site). Begin with CITATIONS in the subject line, if you would.

Daiya

 

[Jeremy]

I'll keep you updated but it seems that the paste destination file was somewhat corrupted. I re-saved it as... and the phenomenon seems not to happen again...

Thank you though.

Regards.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Great, glad something worked. Good to know another sign of corruption. I
was thinking the paste source file might be corrupted, so interesting
that the problem was in the destination file.