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Author: Popham, Karyn    Posted: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 19:27:52 -0600
The indexing of the RefMan 10 manual is execrable, but then there are days I think that simply matches the content. (Cranky? Me? <g>) I have managed to piece together most of what the function keys to in RefMan, but I've never been able to find out what F9 or F10 do. Does anyone know? If they don't do anything, I strongly suggest that one of them be assigned to "Search PubMed"! For those of you who may not know: F1 Help F2 Back to main (split) screen F3 Show dropdown list F4 Search (RefMan database) F5 Term Manager F6 AND (for searches) F7 NOT (for searches) F8 OR (for searches) F9 ? F10 ? F11 Options F12 Go get it! At least, that's what I call F12--once you've set up your search in F4, F12 launches the process. I did a two-row table in Word, landscape, with F1, F2, F3 in the cells on the top row and in the bottom row: Help Main Sc [down arrow] List Search Terms AND NOT OR [blank] [blank] Options Go get it! A little maneuvering of column widths (you need 14 columns, if your F keys have two breaks in them, as mine do) and you have a handy little cheat sheet you can put on keyboard. With mine, it fits well between the numerical and function keys. Cheers, Karyn Popham Reference Wrangler Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research School of Public Health University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (713) 500-9665 "Linda.K.Popham"

Re: Function Keys
Author: Aimin Yan    Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 16:46:25 -0600
Hello, Does anyone know how to make output format for journal "Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics". I have a one for this journal. but it is in Endnotes format. Does anyone know to how to convert this Endnotes format to Reference manager10.0 format? thanks, Aimin Yan

Re: Function Keys
Author: Mariel Volckaert    Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 14:31:06 +0100
Hi Karyn I can't believe that you still haven't found what you can do with the function keys F9 and F10. I'm afraid you'll have to edit you 'handy little cheat sheet' ... F9 means Save en enter a new reference (so, you don't have to use the mouse to click on the 'New Reference' button in the 'Edit' toolbar) F10 means Activate the menu-toolbar (I prefer to use the Alt key for that purpose) I hope this will help. Best regards Mariël Volckaert DISC Belgium www.ResearchSoftware.nl | mailto: "mariel" On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 19:27:52 -0600 "Popham, Karyn" "Linda.K.Popham" wrote: <BR> > <BR> >The indexing of the RefMan 10 manual is execrable, but then there are <BR> >days I <BR> >think that simply matches the content. (Cranky? Me? <g>) <BR> > <BR> >I have managed to piece together most of what the function keys to in <BR> >RefMan, but I've never been able to find out what F9 or F10 do. Does <BR> >anyone <BR> >know? <BR> > <BR> >If they don't do anything, I strongly suggest that one of them be <BR> >assigned <BR> >to "Search PubMed"! <BR> > <BR> >For those of you who may not know: <BR> > <BR> >F1 Help <BR> >F2 Back to main (split) screen <BR> >F3 Show dropdown list <BR> >F4 Search (RefMan database) <BR> >F5 Term Manager <BR> >F6 AND (for searches) <BR> >F7 NOT (for searches) <BR> >F8 OR (for searches) <BR> >F9 ? <BR> >F10 ? <BR> >F11 Options <BR> >F12 Go get it! <BR> > <BR> >At least, that's what I call F12--once you've set up your search in F4, <BR> >F12 <BR> >launches the process. <BR> > <BR> >I did a two-row table in Word, landscape, with F1, F2, F3 in the cells <BR> >on <BR> >the top row and in the bottom row: <BR> >Help Main Sc [down arrow] List Search Terms AND NOT OR <BR> >[blank] [blank] Options Go get it! <BR> > <BR> >A little maneuvering of column widths (you need 14 columns, if your F <BR> >keys <BR> >have two breaks in them, as mine do) and you have a handy little cheat <BR> >sheet <BR> >you can put on keyboard. With mine, it fits well between the numerical <BR> >and <BR> >function keys. <BR> > <BR> >Cheers, <BR> >Karyn Popham <BR> >Reference Wrangler <BR> >Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research <BR> >School of Public Health <BR> >University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston <BR> >(713) 500-9665 <BR> >

RE: Function Keys
Author: Popham, Karyn    Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:09:06 -0600
Mariël Volckaert tells me that F9 is "save and enter a new reference" and F10 activates the menu-toolbar. Thanks for the info! Hello, RIS? What were you thinking?? Control-S saves; the insert key gives you "enter a new reference". Alt, as Mariel notes, gives you the command line. No, I still say, one of those should be given over to "Search PubMed"! I nominate F10 for the honor. And the fact that I could use the software for so long and not be able to find this information in the manual... guys, does this alert you to anything? Cheers, Karyn Popham Reference Wrangler Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research School of Public Health University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (713) 500-9665 "Linda.K.Popham"

RE: Function Keys
Author: Perry, Christy B    Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:37:33 -0600
Actually, F4 opens up the search routine, but it's only for the local database. If you want to use the keys to do an internet search, you'd have to type [Alt]+R, press the [down] arrow key, and hit enter. Christy -----Original Message----- From: "listmaster" "mailto:listmaster" On Behalf Of Popham, Karyn Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 11:09 AM To: RIS-List Subject: RE: <RefMan> Function Keys Mariël Volckaert tells me that F9 is "save and enter a new reference" and F10 activates the menu-toolbar. Thanks for the info! Hello, RIS? What were you thinking?? Control-S saves; the insert key gives you "enter a new reference". Alt, as Mariel notes, gives you the command line. No, I still say, one of those should be given over to "Search PubMed"! I nominate F10 for the honor. And the fact that I could use the software for so long and not be able to find this information in the manual... guys, does this alert you to anything? Cheers, Karyn Popham Reference Wrangler Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research School of Public Health University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (713) 500-9665 "Linda.K.Popham"

RE: Function Keys
Author: Popham, Karyn    Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:15:57 -0600
Christy Perry notes, "Actually, F4 opens up the search routine, but it's only for the local database." Yup. And when you do Alt, R, I, what you get is a default for Web of Science--which is not authoritative for the proper citation (look up citations to "Bowling Alone" in Journal of Democracy if you want to see an example) and does not link to full text. 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. I don't think RIS quite grasps that the search interface with PubMed is one of the software's greatest selling points! It should be easy, not hard, to get to it. I'll shut up now. <g> Cheers, Karyn Popham Reference Wrangler Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research School of Public Health University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (713) 500-9665 "Linda.K.Popham"

RE: Function Keys
Author: Marinus J Broekman    Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:14:04 -0500
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: > >1. Close Reference Manager. > >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. > >4. Re-open Reference Manager. > >5. PubMed should now serve as the default Internet Search facility. > >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. ---------- M. Johan Broekman, PhD Associate Research Professor of Biochemistry in Medicine Hematology-Oncology, VA NY Harbor Healthcare System / Weill Medical College of Cornell University 423 East 23rd Street, Room 13025W New York, NY 10010 Phone: (212) 686-7500, ext 7494 FAX: (212) 951-3389 email: "mjbroek"

RE: Function Keys
Author: Garry Sandison    Posted: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:43:45 -0000
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: > >1. Close Reference Manager. > >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. > >4. Re-open Reference Manager. > >5. PubMed should now serve as the default Internet Search facility. > >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. ---------- M. Johan Broekman, PhD Associate Research Professor of Biochemistry in Medicine Hematology-Oncology, VA NY Harbor Healthcare System / Weill Medical College of Cornell University 423 East 23rd Street, Room 13025W New York, NY 10010 Phone: (212) 686-7500, ext 7494 FAX: (212) 951-3389 email: "mjbroek"

RE: Function Keys
Author: Gary Novack    Posted: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 06:10:22 -0800
Garry - very clever - never thought about it. May have to try it. Gary Novack -----Original Message----- From: "listmaster" "mailto:listmaster" On Behalf Of Garry Sandison Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:44 PM To: RIS-List Subject: RE: <RefMan> Function Keys 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: > >1. Close Reference Manager. > >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. > >4. Re-open Reference Manager. > >5. PubMed should now serve as the default Internet Search facility. > >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. ---------- M. Johan Broekman, PhD Associate Research Professor of Biochemistry in Medicine Hematology-Oncology, VA NY Harbor Healthcare System / Weill Medical College of Cornell University 423 East 23rd Street, Room 13025W New York, NY 10010 Phone: (212) 686-7500, ext 7494 FAX: (212) 951-3389 email: "mjbroek"

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