Posts Tagged ‘Write-N-Cite’

Write-n-Cite blocked from staff computers

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Write-n-Cite users have been running into problems when using computers on the campus MST network. The MS Word Status sticks at “Word is not Running” and clicking cite fails to send citation code to Word. We’re working with Jeff-IT to resolve the problem.

The status message "Word is not Running" is a symptom of the recent WNC problem.

The message "Word is not Running" is a symptom of the recent WNC problem.

One work around is to use the One Line/Cite View in RefWorks, which provides code snippits to copy-and-paste into Word and a bibliography button to format your document. Here are full instructions (Word).

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Mac Office X and Write-n-Cite

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Some Mac users report that the current version of Write-n-Cite for Mac, v2.5, isn’t inserting citations into the Office X version of Microsoft Word. (I’ve been able to replicate that problem and see that it does work on the newer Office 2008 for Mac, which is installed in the Scott LRC.) Reverting to the older Write-n-Cite for Mac v.2 fixes the problem, but the download is no longer available from the RefWorks download page. The very helpful folks at RefWorks Support provided the file and these instructions:

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Using RefWorks with Apple Pages

Monday, October 13th, 2008

A couple Mac users have called the reference desk this week asking if they can use RefWorks Write-N-Cite with Pages, the iLife wordprocessing software. I asked the helpful folks at RefWorks support who said that WNC does not work with Pages, but suggested this work around:

One Line / Cite View does work with Pages and RefWorks can format the bibliography if it is saved as an RTF file.

This method should work for anyone who uses a word processor other than Microsoft Word that can save in RTF format such as Google Docs.

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