This morning when I opened microsoft word I found all of the end note citations in all of my files were suddenly not formatted. All the citations and bibliographies were working fine for the last 5 years. I haven’t made any changes to endnote or word in the last year, let alone last night. I haven’t changed the output style, ever. There is no reason for it to suddenly have this problem. I have since tried deleting and reinserting a reference, to see if it would fix the problem, but the new citation went in the same way (unformatted). I tried changing styles to see if the problem was with the output style, but the same problem occurred with the new output styles,
I have windows vista, office 2007 and endnote x1.
Any help anyone can offer will be very appreciated.
This is a Word setting “Show field codes instead of their values.” This typically gets accidentally invoked by pressing the - “Alt +F9” key combination. If you hit this key combo again, you should see your EndNote in-text citations formatted again.
This is a very common mistake that causes much confusion and consternation for EndNote users. Starting in version X3, we actually added a preference in Cite While You Write that tries to automatically turn this Word function off - see the attached screen shot. Since we added this, we get virtually no calls in Tech Support about this so it seems like it is helping.
