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BibTex for Microsoft Word

Posted: Thu 3rd Apr 2008@12:22

I know what you might say - why are you using MS Word, when you could use LaTeX?!! (DS, TH, GG, AG, Etc.)

Sometimes, well, you just cant be bothered, and need a wysiwyg editor, and also, you need an excuse to procrastinate (i.e. finding a way to get BibTex to work with MS Word).

So, after (a little) searching on google, I found a cool thing that this guy; Mike Brooks seems to have written.

Dead simple, download the .dot file from here (or from my server) the instructions are here

and stick it in

?:\Documents and Settings\USERNAMEHERE\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP\

or for Vista users

?:\users\USERNAMEHERE\AppData\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP\

And you'll get some extra buttons on your toolbar that let you add BibTex entries to word!

I'm sure there are lots of other ones around, but this one works OK :) and I really must get on with doing what I'm supposed to be doing! :)