Troubleshooting Zotero references in a document

This video explains a few common problems with Zotero citations and shows my workflow for fixing documents that have Zotero citations.
Workflow:
1. Toggle field shading on to see what comes from Zotero and what is typed manually
2. Refresh citations
2.a. For every manually added citation, make note of the modifications and apply the modification through Zotero
3. Replace manually typed citations with Zotero
4. Locate all duplicated entries in the bibliography
5. Switch to number style (e.g. IEEE)
5.a. Locate duplicated references in text
5.b. Find every reference that did not update and eliminate changed done with citation editor in classic view
6. Switch back to author-year style
6.a. Fix author names
6.b. Fix capitalization

[@samuelwafula135]

Hi, am getting this error- "You have modified this citation since Zotero generated it. Do you want to keep your modifications and prevent future updates? ....could you help kindly

[@mronkko]

Make note of the changes that you did, then answer "No", and then apply the changes with the Zotero citation dialog.

[@user-zc2tx3ct4s]

Please, my entire file is corrupted. the citation does not appear, they stayed as other writen words not as citation. moreover, they are numbers so i can not know what refrence i used to rewrite it again. this is my research article of my PhD. help me please

[@mronkko]

If the document no longer has field codes, the only options are to either restore a working version from backup or to re-enter the citations. I am sorry, but I do not think that there are any other options if the fields have been converged to text.

[@takesuretozooneyi4836]

How do i remove the black coloring of my zotero reference list in word.

[@mronkko]

I have never seen that, and a not sure what you mean, but I assume it is a style problem.

[@bikalparajbhandari8337]

Thanks Mikko!

[@mronkko]

You are welcome. I hope that that helps people who are struggling to understand why their reference manager produces weird results.