apa 7th edition

What she is referring to is that the APA format currently in Microsoft Word is not up to date with APA.  The current APA edition is 7th.  Will this be included in an update, can we manually download the current APA guidelines into Microsoft Word?

Of course not, the team developing Word does not put much effort as they cannot even get APA 6th edition correct. None of the bibliographic tools actually format properly and according to the rules. Of course a better option is for the Word Team to build code to allow the user to create and update styles. Editing XML is one of the exercises in patience.

Hello , I want to apa 7th edition automatically download thanks a lot..

A docx file is a zip file with a batch of xml files in it. So you might just change the extension from .docx to .zip and see what you can do. 😁

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That is correct, DOCX files are simply ZIP files that have been renamed.  Naming them back to ZIP will give you access to the underlying XML files and folders.  

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BUT accessing that XML will not solve the problem of using APA 7 formatting rules in a document. The XML I was referring to is XML program code used by the Word application itself to define the APA 7 formatted bibliography entries. Totally a different branch of XML.

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Hi Ricardo:

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Here are some (the ONLY) links I've found about writing bibliography XML

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XML- Bibliography & Citations 101 - Building A Bibliography Style -December 14, 2007

https://web.archive.org/web/20080122131621/http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2007/12/14/bibliography-citations-1011.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2007/12/14/bibliography-citations-1011.aspx

I'm going to create a series of posts which will (hopefully) address some of the questions around how to create a custom bibliography style in Word 2007. For starters, here are a few important directories to know about. Yes, it is very difficult to the read the built-in XML style sheetsin our Styles directory. Many of the lines in the built-in bibliography styles are used internally by Word for specialized international cases (e.g. remembering that language X doesn't need a comma before the "and" before the last author name). Fortunately, a custom bibliography style doesn't need to be so complex. On that note, this post will walk through the steps (and XML code) needed to construct a simple custom style.

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WT R 2 PageLayout Ref Mailing Review View Dev.docx****Bibliography & Citations 102 – Building Custom styles                    April 29, 2009     Word team

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2009/04/29/bibliography-citations-102-building-custom-styles/

Today, I’m going to be expanding on Amani’s post to show you how to build more complex styles. One of the issues that “complicates” bibliography styles is that they often need to have a significant amount of conditional logic built into them. For example, if the date is specified we need to show the date, whereas if the date is not specified we may need to use an abbreviation to indicate that there is no date for that source.

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XML- Create Custom Bibliography Styles 6/12/2017 ****https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/word/concepts/objects-properties-methods/create-custom-bibliography-styles

Create a custom bibliography style in Word by learning the steps (and XML code) you need to construct a simple custom style. Also, learn to make a more complex style file. Before we start, there is some information that you need to know:

The bibliography sources you create are all listed in the following file: \Microsoft\Bibliography\Sources.xml.

Note The \Bibliography\Sources.xml file won't exist until you create your first bibliography source in Word. All bibliography styles are stored in \Microsoft\Bibliography\Style.

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You might also want to try contacting the APA org to see if they will help, ie review your changes for correctness.

GOOD LUCK.