Citations & Bibliography Converted to Static Text in Word DOC (Java) | Unlink Bibliography Fields

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In rare cases Aspose.Words make document references “disappear”. Please find the affected document in the Example.doc.zip (20.7 KB)
The following simple code produces document with the references “invisible” for MS Word:

    public void Test() throws Exception {
        var license = new License();
        license.setLicense(license.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/Aspose.Words.lic"));

        var document = new Document("Example.doc");
        document.save("Example.copy.doc");
    }

The references are still present in the document. Some editors (for example Pages for Mac) still display them. But MS Word doesn’t.

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@timophey.ustik,

We also see the following message when we ‘Save As’ this ‘Example.doc’ to DOC format by using MS Word 2019 on Windows 10.

Convert Bibliography Text in Word DOC Document using Java

After clicking Continue, we get this MS Word 2019 generated output DOC file: msw-2019.zip (10.0 KB). Is the output shown in ‘msw-2019.doc’ acceptable for you? If yes, then you can use the following code of Aspose.Words for Java to get the same output:

Document doc = new Document("C:\\Temp\\Example.doc\\Example.doc");

for (Field field : doc.getRange().getFields()) {
    if (field.getType() == FieldType.FIELD_BIBLIOGRAPHY)
        field.unlink();
}

doc.save("C:\\temp\\Example.doc\\awjava-20.11.doc");

However, for the sake of any corrections in Aspose.Words for Java API, we have logged this problem in our issue tracking system. The ID of this issue is WORDSNET-21460. We will further look into the details of this problem and will keep you updated on the status of correction. We apologize for your inconvenience.

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The issues you have found earlier (filed as WORDSNET-21460) have been fixed in this Aspose.Words for .NET 21.1 update and this Aspose.Words for Java 21.1 update.