davret / clipsourcewordaddin

Clipboard Manager for Word which displays the source URL and a formatted source (in combination with ClipSource.py)

ClipSource Word Add-In

Add-in for MS Word which displays the source URL and citations of copied objects in combination with clipsource.py and clipsource_server.py (https://github.com/DavRet/ClipSource).

Features:

• Manage clipboard contents in MS Word, restore old clipboard data
• Displays the source URLs of copied objects
• Displays citations of copied object, if available
• Insert citations in bibliography
• Cite clipboard content and put citation in bibliography
• Insert copied image with caption which contains it's source
• Create footnotes containing the source of copied objects

How to run:

• Run clipsource.py (https://github.com/DavRet/ClipSource)
  • Extracts sources of copied objects and puts them on the clipboard
• Run clipsource_server.py (https://github.com/DavRet/ClipSource)
  • Enables communication with python script
• Open Visual Studio solution file (ClipSource.sln) and run the project there
  • After that, MS Word will open and you have to click the button at the right top to open the add-in
  • MS Word then asks if you want to permit access to the python server, click "yes" twice