Bibtex4Word - Installation

Bibtex4Word - Installation

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Contents: Requirements - Installing Bibtex4Word - Uninstalling Bibtex4Word - Copyright Notice

Current Version: V1.84 - 2010/06/05

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Requirements

To use Bibtex4Word, you must be using a PC (it does not work on a Mac) running Word 2002 or later and you need to install three pieces of free software:

1. A reference manager that will allow you to enter, or download, the citation details of a published document and which stores them in BibTeX format. There are several suitable reference managers available: I recommend JabRef.
2. The MikTeX wordprocessing package. This is a PC implementation of a wordprocessor called LaTeX  which includes the BibTeX program as one of its components. We only use a tiny part of MikTeX but it is easiest to install the whole package.
3. The Bibtex4Word macro itself.

Installation Steps

Installing Bibtex4Word is a bit involved but you only need do this once:

1. Install the latest version of  MikTex from  http://www.miktex.org/.
2. Check that it installed correctly by opeining a command prompt window (Start>>All Programs>>Accessories>>Command Prompt) and typing the command bibtex. You should receive a message saying Need exactly one file argument. If the message instead says 'bibtex' is not recognized as an internal or external command then MikTex has not been installed correctly.
3. Install a BibTex manager. I recommend JabRef (http://jabref.sourceforge.net/) but there are several others available.
4. Make hidden folders visible: Control Panel>>Folder Options>>Hidden files and folders>>Show hidden files and folders
5. Create a new folder in any convenient location and download the Bibtex4Word template file bibtex4word.zip into the folder.
6. In Windows explorer, right click bibtex4word.zip and select explore. Now drag all the files displayed into the folder you created in the previous step. These files include a complete copy of this documentation which you can open by double clicking on index.html. It also includes a number of demonstration files together with a sample Bibtex database.
7. Now copy the file, Bibtex4Word.dot,  into the Word Startup folder given below for XP and Vista (where ***** is your user name):
   Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\*****\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP
   Windows Vista: C:\Users\*****\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP
   You will need to do this for each user of the computer.
8. Start Word. If Word is already running, you must close it and restart it.
9. You should see the Bibtex4Word toolbar: . In Word 2007 this is in the Add-Ins ribbon.
10. Clicking on brings up a window which includes the Bibtex4Word version number in the title. Click cancel to close the window.
11. From within Word, open the document Test4w.doc from the folder you created in step 5. Follow the instructions in the document to verify that Bibtex4Word is operating correctly.

Uninstall Steps

1. Delete Bibtex4Word.dot from the Word Startup folder used in step 6 above.
2. Delete the folder you created in step 5 above together with all its contents.
3. Remove MiKTex and JabRef using the normal windows procedure:
   Windows XP: Start->Setting->Control Panel->Add or Remove Programs
   Windows Vista: ??

Copyright Notice

BibTex4Word is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You can obtain a copy of the GNU General Public License from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/COPYING-2.0 or by writing to Free Software Foundation, Inc.,675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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This page is part of the Bibtex4Word documentation. Copyright © 2006-2009 Mike Brookes, Imperial College, London, UK. See the file gfl.html for copying instructions. Please send any comments or suggestions to "mike.brookes" at "imperial.ac.uk".
Updated: $Id: b4w_install.html,v 1.18 2009/09/03 07:18:56 dmb Exp $

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