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Thomson Reuters:"Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed" - 1 New Post - Community Subscription
Author: Community Mailer    Posted: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:59:29 -0800
Subject: Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed Author: sg148004 (New User) Date: 11-16-2009 02:59 AM Maybe the number that is appearing in the references in the text body of my document is actually the "record number" rather than the "field code"...this still doesn't tell me how to fix my problem though.:smileysad:

Thomson Reuters:"Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed" - 1 New Post - Community Subscription
Author: Community Mailer    Posted: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:32:15 -0800
Subject: Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed Author: CrazyGecko (Enthusiast) Date: 11-16-2009 09:32 AM Sorry to hear about your problem.  Just wondering but have you checked whether EndNote's "Instant Formatting" has been turned on?    You don't mention what version of Word you're using but here's some info for Word 2003 and 2007 (taken from the manual):   1. Word 2003: Go to the TOOLS menu, then the EndNote submenu, select FORMAT BIBLIOGRAPHY.  If you're using Word 2007, go to the EndNote tab in the Bibliography group and click the bottom corner arrow.   2. Click the Instant Formatting tab.    3. Click TURN ON to activate Instant Formatting. Then click the SETTINGS button to check the Instant Formatting controls for scanning fo temporary citations and check for citation changes has been selected/checked.   4. Click the OK button to save changes to the Instant Formatting settings.   5.Click OK to format all citations and re-build the bibliography.

Thomson Reuters:"Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed" - 1 New Post - Community Subscription
Author: Community Mailer    Posted: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:34:39 -0800
Subject: Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed Author: Leanne (Authority) Date: 11-16-2009 06:34 PM Are you sure you are using the correct library?  It sound like the record numbers are not the same as those in the library?

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Author: Community Mailer    Posted: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:55:22 -0800
Subject: Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed Author: sg148004 (New User) Date: 11-16-2009 08:55 PM Yes, I am using the correct library.   This document was generated from several smaller documents, each with their own libraries. I created a new library comprising each of the smaller ones when I merged the  documents. It has not given me any difficulty with using the new (larger) library before - through several save and reopen iterations.   When I go back to the original smaller documents, there is no problem with formatting from their individual (smaller) libraries, but the larger document is having trouble using its new larger library and the smaller original libraries from which it was generated.    I'm considering creating a new document and library from each of the smaller ones again since nothing I've tried is able to repair the formatting. Is this a bad idea? Will I run into the same trouble again?

Thomson Reuters:"Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed" - 1 New Post - Community Subscription
Author: Community Mailer    Posted: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:56:32 -0800
Subject: Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed Author: sg148004 (New User) Date: 11-16-2009 08:56 PM CrazyGecko - Thanks for your suggestion. I tried what you described, but this did not change anything unfortunately, since Instant Formatting, etc. was already selected.

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Author: Community Mailer    Posted: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:01:12 -0800
Subject: Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed Author: Leanne (Authority) Date: 11-16-2009 09:01 PM The problem is that while you were using the formated document, it was happily using the the "traveling library" versions of the citations and not the combined library, because the record numbers no longer match.  Once you unformat the document, it can't find the exact match because the record numbers in the new combined library don't match.  If you still have all the small libraries, you can open them, and it will reformat fine.  You don't have to create a new document.

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Author: Community Mailer    Posted: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:03:42 -0800
Subject: Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed Author: sg148004 (New User) Date: 11-16-2009 09:03 PM Another clue: In the Word -> Tools -> Auto Correct Options -> Smart Tags menu,according to the EndNote help, I should"   Select the check box titled ?Label text with smart tags.? In the list of Recognizers, make sure ?Cwyw Citation Recognizer? is selected.   However, there is no "CWYW Citation Recognizer" in the list, nor does it appear on the list displayed when I click the "More Smart Tags" button.

Thomson Reuters:"Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed" - 1 New Post - Community Subscription
Author: Community Mailer    Posted: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:06:13 -0800
Subject: Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed Author: sg148004 (New User) Date: 11-16-2009 09:06 PM Thanks for your suggestion Leanne - I just tried to reformat the large document with the smaller libraries open and go tthe same result - it's still asking me to select the appropriate references (one-by-one) from a list. Argh!

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Author: Community Mailer    Posted: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:12:53 -0800
Subject: Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed Author: Leanne (Authority) Date: 11-16-2009 09:12 PM open the smaller and the large library -- you will have some of each by this point.

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Author: Community Mailer    Posted: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:14:33 -0800
Subject: Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed Author: sg148004 (New User) Date: 11-16-2009 09:14 PM ALL the libraries are open. Still no dice.

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Author: Community Mailer    Posted: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:19:04 -0800
Subject: Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed Author: sg148004 (New User) Date: 11-16-2009 09:18 PM However, in the pop-up window that results from the Tools -> CWYW -> Format Bibliography  menu, there is a tab that says "Libraries Used". Only one of my libraries appears on this list and there is no obvious way to add more libraries to this list.

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Author: Community Mailer    Posted: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:22:14 -0800
Subject: Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed Author: Leanne (Authority) Date: 11-16-2009 09:22 PM just open them all in Endnote.  don't worry about what library it says it used.

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Author: Community Mailer    Posted: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:22:44 -0800
Subject: Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed Author: Leanne (Authority) Date: 11-16-2009 09:22 PM Please Private message me.  we will take this off line.

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Author: Community Mailer    Posted: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:52:56 -0800
Subject: Re: Lost bibliography/formatting when computer crashed Author: sg148004 (Visitor) Date: 11-17-2009 08:52 PM Thanks again Leanne - It seems that my word document is corrupted. Probably happened when the computer crashed. I've had to create a new document anyway to deal with some other non-EndNote edits, and this new document is not having any trouble with the EndNote formatting, so I'm going to just work with that one from now on. Thank you for your advice and efforts to solve this problem.

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