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RE: "Marking" references in EndNote
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Posted: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:43:05 -0400
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Subject: Re: "Marking" references in EndNote
When I need to do something similar with several thousand records, I
copy and paste each record that needs marking to a new library (a
fairly quick operation). When I am all finished, then I add a "$$$" to
and unused field of all of the records in the new library using the
"change/move" field option. Then I paste all of the records back into
the original library and do a duplicate search. This brings paired
sets of all of the records that I want to mark. Then I search for
"$$$" using the omit from showing option. This leaves showing all of
the records that I need to mark which can easily be done using the
"change/move" field option.
Sanford
On Sep 23, 2005, at 2:16 PM, wrote:
>>> The inability to mark references is definitely a limitation in
>>> EndNote.
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> When I speak of "marking" references in EndNote I'm referring to a
> task I'll soon have to undertake: scroll down through an entire
> library of about 1500 references viewed in the library window and,
> based on subjective knowledge of the authors and title, add a
> **permanent** "mark" to perhaps 100 or 150 of those references --
> that is, add a distinctive word in the Keywords list, or insert a
> word or character in some one of the custom fields, for those
> selected references.
>
> I'd obviously like to do this with just a mouse click or single
> keystroke on the selected reference line in the library window,
> **without** having to open the reference itself, tab to the desired
> field, insert whatever, close the reference, and get back to the same
> starting point in the reference window.
>
> I don't believe there is any way to do something like this in
> EndNote. As an approximation, it's possible to scroll down through
> the library, select individual references to be marked using
> cmd-mouse-click, then use Show Selected References and Change or Move
> Fields to insert the "mark" globally in the selected references. But
> if you've worked your way down through 90% of the library making a
> series of selections, and as you near the end make one careless error
> (e.g. just click or Shift-click instead of Cmd-click on a reference),
> you lose all your work to date.
>
> Just for comparison, the iView MediaPro image data base lets you scan
> forward through all the images in your image database, seen in
> catalog view (Thumbnail or Media views), and edit any individual
> image title right there in the catalog view, without opening the
> individual images. You can also transfer a copy of any individual
> image to a new folder with a single menu command, without opening the
> image itself.
>
> And, the Now Contact address book software lets you scan down through
> all the names in your address book, displayed in their equivalent of
> the EndNote library window, and edit certain fields in the individual
> address listings, without opening the individual addresses.
>
> So it can be done . . .
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Sanford D. Porter, PhD
Research Entomologist
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