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Author: Garry Sandison
Posted: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:43:45 -0000
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Version discussed here: RefMan 10.0
Hi everybody,
Thanks for the acknowledgement, Marinus. What I like about this list is that
it has the feel of a genuine online community.
And so, in that same spirit, I'd like to share a possible use of Reference
Manager that's intriguing me at the moment:
BOILERPLATE CITATIONS IN MICROSOFT WORD
What I mean here has to do with MS Word's AutoCorrect functionality:
1. Let's suppose that in several papers on a particular theme, I write "area
under the concentration-time curve (AUC)". Eventually, I realise this is
boilerplate text, which can be automated with an appropriate MS Word
AutoCorrect entry (which is stored in the underlying document template),
such that:
typing:
"auc"
then hitting <spacebar>
produces the full AutoCorrect entry "area under the concentration-time curve
(AUC)"
2. Now let's suppose further that the text above is typically associated
with a particular reference or set of references.
THESE RECURRING REFERENCES CAN BE INCLUDED IN THE AUTOCORRECT ENTRY
3. This works as follows:
a. Select the boilerplate text, e.g.:
"area under the concentration-time curve (AUC) (12,34)"
where the numbers in parentheses are the in-text RefMan citations; be sure
to include these in the selection.
b. In Word, Go to Tools, Autocorrect Options. The selection appears in the
"Replace With Box" (be sure to select the "Formatted Text" radio button)
c. Choose the abbreviation to type instead of the full entry, e.g. "auc"
(never choose anything you would not want replaced with the full entry.)
d. click ok
e. In this document or new documents based on the same template, typing
"auc" and hitting spacebar should give you whole enchilada, i.e. the
expanded text entry replete with in-text citations (of course, this does
require a minimum "RefMan environment", i.e. the appropriate RefMan
database/s open, etc.)
If anybody's interested in trying out this functionality, please let me know
how you get on. For me, boilerplating is especially handy for those parts of
a paper that don't really change much. Then you're free to concentrate more
on the bits that do.
Cheers
Garry Sandison
P.S. Why not just copy and paste boilerplate? Well, I'd hate to have to have
open all the different documents where those bits are stored, and the
abbreviations really are shorter, and then cutting and pasting can get
messy, and it's not for me.
-----Original Message-----
From: "listmaster" "mailto:listmaster"
On Behalf Of Marinus J. Broekman
Sent: 10 March 2004 20:14
To: "ris-list"
Subject: RE: <RefMan> Function Keys
Karyn,
Just before Christmas this was posted to the list by Garry Sandison, and I
eagerly adopted it (I just appended the extension .old to the files Garry
moved, but left them in place):
>Marie, you asked about changing the Internet Search default to PubMed
>rather than ISI. To do this, you need to:
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>1. Close Reference Manager.
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>2. Using Windows Explorer, open the folder "BkwrAPI", which is located
>within the Reference Manager folder.
>
>3. Move the two files "ISISearch.cap" and "WebOfScience.z39" from the
>BkwrAPI folder to some other folder. For example, you could navigate up
>one level and put these two files in the Reference Manager folder.
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>4. Re-open Reference Manager.
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>5. PubMed should now serve as the default Internet Search facility.
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>Cheers
>
>Garry Sandison
At 02:15 PM 3/10/2004, you wrote:
>I understand why they did this--the people who own RefMan own Web of
>Science. But it is still a disservice to their customers for that to be
>locked in with no way to change it.
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Hematology-Oncology, VA NY Harbor Healthcare System / Weill Medical College
of Cornell University
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Phone: (212) 686-7500, ext 7494 FAX: (212) 951-3389 email:
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