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How do I preserve my Bibliographic Table format settings ?

When you done all that hard work in setting up the bibliographic table with all the field entries and formating it to your document style, I suggest that you select and copy the Bibliographic table and save it in a other document.

Because, if you accidently delete the Bibliographic Table all your work in formating the table will be deleted too. To use the table formating in an other document copy the table into new document, it does not matter that the references are different, just right click over the table and select 'Update Index/Table' for it to be regenerated.

I edit my citations but the changes are not applied.

When you modify a citation (Bibliography Entry) by double-clicking on the citation, and selecting edit and modifying the entry. You need to click on the 'Modify' button to apply the changes before you select 'Close'.

How do I correct the citations in my document?

If you have inserted a citation (Bibliography Entry) may times in a document and need to correct it. Correcting it in the database is not enough. The changes are NOT automatically made in the document. In fact each citation has complete copy of the citation data and must be correct for each citation. You have several options:

1. Find each citation, delete it and reinsert it (after correcting it in the database).

2. Find each citation, double-clicking on the citation, select edit, make the corrections, close the edit panel, click the 'Modify' button to apply the changes before you select 'Close'.

3. If you have too many citations to change in this way then you can edit the save file. Make a backup of your file. Rename your xxx.odt file xxx.zip, open the zip archive and extract the contents.xml file, open that file in a writer. Very carefully do a global find and replace for your corrections. Save the contents.xml back into the zip archive. Rename xxx.zip xxx.odt. Hoping you have not destroyed your file, open it and check.

Your question is not answered here ?

Try the Bibliographic FAQ

I feel I am going around in circles and I can not find what I need.

You could post a question to the the Bibliographic Project user's mail list at users@bibliographic.openoffice.org

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