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Author: Ian Robert Douglas    Posted: 03/08/2001 17:36:35 GDT
Dear subscribers, I imagine you get similar messages from many new subscribers. Please forgive me; I certainly did all that I could to find a solution to this problem before coming here. I have a copy of Endnote 4, but have not used it. My problem is that I have a word file with a list of bibliographic references in, sometimes in different styles (e.g., Chicago, Harvard, or some mix, etc.). I simply cannot input these by hand individually into Endnote as there are 1500 of them. My problem is to convert this list of references into something that Endnote can deal with (and deal with fast and easily). Ideally, I need a quick, easy, and comprehensible way to get that list into Endnote. I wish I had time, but I just don't have weeks to become a master with this software. I tried looking in various places on the net for support sites. I found this: http://lib.nd.edu/eresources/endnote/ which while useful, doesn't say much about taking specifically a word file full of references and converting it to Endnote. I don't even know if it can be done without manually inputing them all by hand, individually. I imagine that Endnote must have addressed this somewhere; as I'd think many users would want to do just that --- i.e., convert old bibligraphies they used into Endnote. So I have two questions: 1) does anyone here know of an easy, idiot-proof, way to convert a word file with 1500 references, not of uniform style, into Endnote? Or can anyone provide simple instructions as to how to go about doing this? 2) does anyone know of a person or company that would convert my word file into Endnote for a fee? All best wishes/many thanks for any replies, Ian Robert Douglas, http://www.powerfoundation.org when disenchantment has become an article of mass and universal consumption, we go on believing in the astounding power of the embrace | eduardo galeano

Re: please help
Author: Selden Deemer    Posted: 07/08/2001 14:47:26 GDT
Ian Robert Douglas > I have a copy of Endnote 4, but have not used it. My problem is > that I have a word file with a list of bibliographic references in, > sometimes in different styles (e.g., Chicago, Harvard, or some mix, > etc.). I simply cannot input these by hand individually into Endnote > as there are 1500 of them. > > My problem is to convert this list of references into something that > Endnote can deal with (and deal with fast and easily). Ideally, I > need a quick, easy, and comprehensible way to get that list into > Endnote. I wish I had time, but I just don't have weeks to become a >master with this software. This question comes up occasionally in EndNote classes that I teach. The metaphor I use in replying to it is that you can't make eggs from an omelet. A bibliography such as you describe has very little inherent structure, and the mix of styles makes the problem even worse. The EndNote manual has a section "Creating Structured Text Files that EndNote Can Import" that covers what needs to be done. This is probably not the answer you want, but cutting and pasting data, reference by reference, from your Word file into EndNote may be the least bad way to accomplish what you want. ====================================================================== Selden Deemer, Library Systems Administrator PHONE: 404-727-0271 Emory University Libraries FAX: 404-727-0827 Atlanta, Georgia EMAIL: ======================================================================

Please help with Endnote 5 for Mac!
Author: Evan L Kaplan    Posted: 24/08/2001 17:06:14 GDT
Hi everyone, I just got Endnote 5 and I can't get it to run on my Mac B&W G3. When I start it up, I get the EndNote window, but then it crashes and gives me a window that says the following "The application EndNote 5 has unexpectedly quit, because an error of type 2 occurred." Any suggestions on how to fix this? I have already tried deleting the preferences file (and allocating more memory to the program) and then re-starting, but I get the same error. Any advice or suggestions is much appreciated. Thanks, Evan --

Re: Please help with Endnote 5 for Mac!
Author: Troy Sagrillo    Posted: 25/08/2001 05:02:08 GDT
on 24.08.01 5.01 pm, Evan L. Kaplan wrote: > I just got Endnote 5 and I can't get it to run on my Mac B&W G3. > When I start it up, I get the EndNote window, but then it crashes and > gives me a window that says the following "The application EndNote 5 > has unexpectedly quit, because an error of type 2 occurred." I managed to solve most of my EndNote 5/Mac problems by disabling the CWYWInitLib and CWYWServerLib Libraries in the Extensions folder. They are apparently incompatible with something on my system (not sure just what). Perhaps you are having the same problem, though I did get EN to at least launch. The draw back is that you can't use the CWYW feature -- one of EN 5 major new features. Hopefully ISI will find a solution, but I have yet to find out what is causing the conflict in the 1st place, so I am not holding my breath. At least EN is working with FrameMaker now. HTH. Troy PS -- my apologies for the double posting to all last time. :-( -- Troy Sagrillo Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations University of Toronto Canada

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