No longer possible to edit citations

[J.Koehnke]

I'm having a huge issue with Word 2008. Suddenly the possibility to edit a citation disappeared. Before, when I inserted a citation from the list it inserted for example: (Author, 1999). When moving the mouse over that citation, a blue box appeared, with a little arrow on the upper right. When clicked one could choose to edit the source or edit the citation. I'm using this feature all the time to insert the particular page number. But now, all of a sudded it stopped working. The citation is being inserted but it's no longer editable. Same goes for all my documents. This is crucial for me, what to do!?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

If you saved as .doc instead of .docx, I think that would cause that.

Citations inserted in footnotes are not editable.

Do either of those things apply?

 

[M.Mielmann]

I had the same problem with my document (.docx). Interestingly the citation still worked fine with my backed up files from Time Machine. After having tried everything, I just copied the whole document via copy/paste into a new one - and it worked again. I have no idea why that is, but maybe this helps you, too.
Good luck!

 

[J.Koehnke]

@Daiya Mitchell: no, none of these apply. docx all the way.

@all: solved the issue by trashing the word preference file (/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word.plist

 

[Clive Huggan]

@Daiya Mitchell: no, none of these apply. docx all the way.

@all: solved the issue by trashing the word preference file
(/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word.plist

Thanks for that feedback!

Clive Huggan
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[J.Koehnke]

haha, this is getting ridiculous. the problem randomly reoccurs, so i have to trash the plist file over and over again. it now also occured within a single document: one citation is editable, the other is not. seriously, i've never used a crappier software than microsoft word 2008 in my _life_. can't wait for the native open office to become useable. this is just ridiculous.