Adding citations to PowerPoint slides from Zotero : Making referencing in PowerPoint easier
Ruben Lejeune · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · 2015
When writing papers, it is frequently necessary to add citations. A frequently used tool to facilitate this process is Zotero. Currently one can add citations using the Zotero Word integration extension to a Word document, however there is not yet a tool to do so in PowerPoint – despite the fact that in many settings this would be very desirable. This project solves this problem. The first difficulty was that this was the first time I had to analyze a software project of this magnitude (specifically the Zotero and Zotero Word integration software). This meant I had to understand their structure and find out what pieces of the software would be useful to me. The second difficulty was to understand and use some of the tools used by Zotero and Zotero Word integration as they were new to me, specifically: creating add-ins for Powerpoint (in VBA), creating Firefox extensions, and working with C++. The goal of this project was to enable users to add citations to PowerPoint with an easy to use interface. Additionally, users can now with a single button click automatically generate slides at the end of the presentation with all the references.