# \[Feature Request\] Allow LibreOffice panel to convert in-text citations to\<-\>from plain text?

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/feature-request-allow-libreoffice-panel-to-convert-in-text-citations-to-from-plain-text/3490>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [August 19, 2022, 11:23am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/feature-request-allow-libreoffice-panel-to-convert-in-text-citations-to-from-plain-text/3490 "2022-08-19T11:23:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![iandol](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/iandol/32/744_2.png) [@iandol](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/iandol)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 11:23am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/feature-request-allow-libreoffice-panel-to-convert-in-text-citations-to-from-plain-text/3490/1 "2022-08-19T11:23:14Z")

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First off, you guys are doing a great great job with JabRef, and while I don’t use it as I already have a long-term workflow (Bookends on macOS / iOS), I do suggest Jabref to students and others.

While helping someone on the Scrivener forums, the best workflow for this external editor was to install [GitHub - teertinker/JabRef\_LibreOffice\_Converter: A LibreOffice extension that converts JabRef references to plain text code and vice versa so that you can use your references with MS Office.](https://github.com/teertinker/JabRef_LibreOffice_Converter) and then use the LibreOffice integration pane. It seems to me that rolling in the plain-text \<-\> tem-field-citation function into the JabRef Libreoffice panel would make this workflow slightly simpler; there are reasons one may want to convert temporary citations to plain text and back and having this rolled-in would be helpful…