Is there any way of creating a mendeley database from a word file?

I have a mendeley data base and I have put references into a document.

But I would like to create a new folder in mendeley, just with the references from that document, and I don't want to have to search and find them all and then move folders, I was hoping there would be an automatic way of doing it e.g. 'select all references that were put in document x' button??

I don't know of any "button" for that, but something worth trying.

My friend recently sent me her thesis and when I opened it, it said something like "this file's citations were created by the Mendeley account of x. Do you want to connect/or something with this account etc etc.".

Maybe something wort trying is to open a new Mendeley account, logging into that in Mendeley desktop and then opening your file from the other account. I wonder if you can "capture" all the citations from the file like that.

Other than that, I don't know of any miracle button ;)

Podge

This worked :-) thank you! I can now just look at the references i've cited rather than trawling through hundreds to make sure they're formatted properly (up)

Honestly I'd never thought that would work, but I'm glad it did! (up)

Good luck with your work!

From the release notes from the new Mendeley Version 1.0:

"Travelling library. Mendeley Desktop now saves a mini-library of cited publications inside Microsoft Word and OpenOffice documents. Mendeley can import citations from this mini-library into your main library in Mendeley Desktop. This is useful if you need to update a Word document containing citations which have been removed from your main Mendeley library."

That could be usefull in the future ;)