Mendeley Word plugin alpha 0.1 released
October 26, 2008 at 3:25 pm by PaulThe very first steps towards a plugin for Microsoft Word are done and we thought we’d give you an early preview. It’s the first alpha and has some known bugs, but most of the time it does the job. 
Known issues (which will be fixed in the next releases) are:
- Large download filesize (14.4MB)
- Several Microsoft run-time environments are being installed before the Word plugin is installed
- The plugin will only work for the user who installed it
- Removing documents from your Mendeley library which you have cited in your Word document causes blank citations
- Standard undo doesn’t work as expected after Mendeley action (eg. changing the citation style of bibliography: undo changes back each entry one by one instead of all at once)
You can download the plugin on our download page. We would really appreciate your feedback and bug-reports to improve the plugin for our next release!
October 26th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
[...] Large download filesize (14.4MB); Several Microsoft run-time environments are being installed before the Word plugin is installed; The plugin will only work for the user who installed it; Removing documents from your Mendeley library … Mendeley Word plugin alpha 0.1 released [...]
October 26th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
How does the plugin compare to the one from Zotero? Do you collaborate with Zotero on the word-processor plugins?
http://www.zotero.org/documentation/microsoft_word_integration
Best
Anders
October 27th, 2008 at 11:09 am
How about a plugin for openoffice?
October 27th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Hi Thomas - the plugin for OpenOffice is planned and will definitely come (probably in late November/early December)! We’ll start working on it right after the Word plugin has been polished a bit more.
Anders: Our Word plugin does everything the Zotero plugin does (but we tried to simplify the interface) - except for, in this alpha release, custom edits in the reference list. We didn’t collaborate with Zotero on the Word plugin because, as far as I know, their Word plugin is not open source?