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• When you have selected an item in the middle column, you can highlight all collections that contain this item by holding down the “Option” key on Mac OS X, the “Control” key on Windows, or the “Alt” key on Linux.

• Press “+” (plus) on the keyboard within the collections list or items list to expand all nodes and “-” (minus) to collapse them.

• To see the number of items in the selected library or collection, click an item in the middle column and use the Select All shortcut (Command-A on Mac OS X or Control-A on Windows and Linux). A count will appear in the right column (attachments are included in the count when visible, i.e. when the parent item is expanded).

• Are you unable to adjust the size of the Zotero pane downwards beyond a certain point? Close the tag selector (e.g. by dragging the splitter above the tag selector down), as it has a minimum height.

• You can convert the contents of the title and publisher fields to either lower or title case by right-clicking the field and using the Transform Text menu.

• The date fields will automatically convert “yesterday”, “today”, and “tomorrow” into the respective dates

• When using Quick Copy, holding the “Shift” key while dragging and dropping items into a text document will insert citations instead of full references.

• You can click the DOI and URL field labels to open the field link. To prevent the link to load in the active tab, you can use the standard Firefox shortcut keys for tab/window opening: Ctrl/Cmd-click for a new background tab, Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-click for a new foreground tab, and Shift-click for a new window.

• Manually adding authors to a Zotero item? You can use Shift+Enter after typing each name as a faster alternative to clicking the “+” button.

• Need more than one Zotero library? Use multiple Firefox profiles to keep your libraries separated.

• To include images in your notes that are synced, follow these steps:
  1. Add the image as an attachment to an item in your Zotero library.
  2. Double-click the item attachment to show the image in your browser window.
  3. Open the note to which you would like to add the image.
  4. Click the image in the browser window and drag it into the note to the appropriate place. If you have set up file syncing, the image should now sync between computers.