[Papyrus-L] Problems with Citations using XP

[Thomas Gill]

David/Raisa/Christopher/others:

Thanks for the suggestions, but so far no luck.  I recall using Mark
Thissen's Papref utility last year in an NT environment with success,
but I continue to have the same problems with citations after the first
in my current XP environment, i.e. the papref.txt file does not get
updated.  Your message suggested that you have been successful in the XP
environment.  What procedure do you follow to paste the Papyrus citation
into your document?


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Thomas M. Gill, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
20 York Street, TMP 17B
New Haven, CT 06504
Phone: (203) 688-3344   Fax: (203) 688-4209
Email: gill at ynhh.org
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>>> davidjbirch at btopenworld.com 11/4/02 3:48:12 PM >>>
I use Mark Thissen's Papref utility in XP. Seems to work ok.
Download here http://www.eco.rug.nl/medewerk/thissen/ 


As for Chris's suggestion (below), I followed the instructions to no
avail.

I will keep trying to resolve this problem, but I would welcome any
additional suggestions, particularly from folks who are successfully
running Papyrus in an XP environment.

Tom 

Along the lines of what has been suggested by Raisa, that the
operating
system's assumptions about file name extensions are getting in the
way,
this may be worth checking.  I have found that whether file extensions
are
'hidden' or not can cause unpredicable results with 'behind the
scenes'
automation tasks in Word. This would not seem to be interrlated, but
surprisingly it is.

So, Tom, try this. In Windows Explorer, when you are viewing a folder
with
"Details" (filenames and date), are the filenames shown with their
3-letter file extensions or not? If not, try switching ON this
feature.
There should be two ways to do it:

Win Explorer - Tools|FolderOptions|View tab, UNCHECK "Hide file
extensions
for known types".

Control Panel - FolderOptions, same setting.

I have found in the past with Win98/Win2k that processes which work
'in
the background' to do things with files (such as the clipboard file) 
can
behave differently (sucess or lockup) when "view extensions" is
switched
on or off. Hope this helps.