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Use the result for your BibTex library.

Substitute the special characters using this script: The Substitutor.

Copy the bibliography that word creates for you.

Start Word and change the style of your bibliography to “Bibtex Export”.

Save it here: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Bibliography\Style.

Here’s how you can export your MS Word sources and references and import them to a BibTex library: Because I didn’t want to do that manually either, I created a script for that, too.

The only problem is, that the library is full of characters that have to be escaped in Latex. Now I can simply copy and paste my library from one system to the other. Instead I wrote a stylesheet that makes Word create a bibliography in BibTex format (Details regarding the Bibliography Management). No way I would create all the entries manually for my Latex bibliography. There are probably better solutions, but it’s easy to use and provides everything I need. I handled the sources of my work in Word. The main problem for me was the library of my references. Converting my Word-documents into Latex-files took some effort. Now, I have to confess, that I never worked with Latex until recently. I therefore began having a look at Latex. And one time, the structure messed up and I had to rework the master document.įinishing my thesis with word is surely possible. The creation of the complete document and its indexes takes longer and longer. All that worked fine so far, but I started noticing some hick-ups. It is constructed through several different documents that are included into one. My thesis currently has around 100 pages, yet a few chapters to come.

I am a fan of MS Word and started writing it there. But you want to minimize the risks that might force you to start over.