2011, really. you have to be joking. Not good enough!
The LONG awaited Office 2011 is available on Tuesday, but those of us who need to use Endnote will have to watch from the sidelines.Ā Ā There is not even a firm date on when (and if) TR is going to release a compatible version of Endnote.Ā Or, perhaps they are going to abandon the MAC platform?Ā
Tell us what you are going to do!
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Come on Thomson Reuters; the least you can do is give a date for intended release of Word 2011 compatible version.
I for one, and my departent colleagues, are going to shift to Bookends. Already compatible with Word 2011 for Mac and a nice piece of softwareā¦oh, and a lot less expensive.
Declan
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Hello, could I be added to the beta testing?
I need to use some functions in Word 2011 urgently, as I am working in a team that will switch to it pretty soon.
Cannot work without Endnote, so that I found myself stuck.
Can you please help and maybe give us a date for the beta testing/final release?
Thank you
Ben
Hi,
I would like to join in into a beta program to test a Office 11 compatible version of EndNote.
And please, hurry up 
First quarter of 2011 sounds to far away for a release dateā¦
Thanks,
Karsten
This is so fā¦g frustrating!
First you need to lay down 100 bucks for a version just to get Office 2011 support on Mac.
Then, after Office 2011 release TODAY, nothing happens!
What kind of software company is this anyway???
Shame on YOU!
Regards and sympathy for all the other Endnote users.
Wait, wait!Ā
I know the solution!
The solution is to launch Endnote X5 that is compatible with 2011, while we are still waiting for X4 to be compatible.
People get tired of waiting and get X5 for 100 bucks more.
And up we go, in the age where an OS upgrade costs $29, but Endnote costsā¦ well you get the point, right???
I canāt express my frustration enoughā¦
Regards.
Look TR obviously dont even watch their own community forums otherwise they would reply
Question: Iām going to switch to Bookends. Anyone using this with 2011 and if so how does it compare to Endnote (even with previous versions of office)?
ddevane
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The first quarter of 2011??? You are talking about 6 months from now!Ā And by that time Thomson Reuters will release Endnote X5.Ā What an embarrassment.
Please do not release or sell software products to the public until you know that they are compatible with the software you intend to interface with!Ā Everyone who has purchased X4 should, at a minimum, receive a Ā free upgrade to X5 when it is released.
I now regret acting on my purchase after receiving the Endnote mailing-pamphlet.Ā
āThomson Reuters is the worldās leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals.Ā We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by the worldās most trusted news organizationāĀ
I was led to believe that this statement by T-R was true, but in reality, it simply is not.
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Both bookends and zotero work under word 2011 out of my own experience.
Iām very disappointed: i just bought Endnote assuming it would work with the much-anticipated Word 2011. Maybe I need to return my copy of Endnote?
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Hello everyone,
just to tell you that there is no need of endnote on Word 2011.
Word 2011 has a built in system to manage bibliography and references.
It took me a bit to get used to it but now I am working without the need of Endnote.
Is it at all improved? It was also in Word 2008, but was completely uncustomizable. In fact, I bought Endnote because the citation manager in Word was so poorly implemented.Ā
I am as surprised and angry as the rest of you. Just migrated to office 2011 because of the slowness of W08, and the macros in 2011. Are just about to complete a loong academic work with a lot of refs - and really are heavily dependent of Endnote (which by the way is an excellent program). But to wait more then a week or two seems to be to long. To wait until early 2011, impossible. Then I have to change to another refs programā¦And once that is done, I am unlikely to take the trouble to migrate back to Endnoteā¦Hire some more programmers TR!
Following up on some postings here, I investigated Word 2011 reference capabilities.Ā Ā
http://mac2.microsoft.com/help/office/14/en-us/word/item/8b155e80-48d2-42af-a19f-06426eda4dd8
It looks to me that an endnote equivalent has been built into Word 2011. It keeps every reference you have ever used.Ā The guide does not indicate how to import your endnote library, but it seems that in the worst case all you need to do is create a document with all of your references cited in it.
I am going to get a copy of 2011 and check it out.Ā
This may explain why they are so slow to update the program. They have been put out of business.
Been playing with this some more, and it does look like I no longer need Endnote.Ā Word 2011 does most everything Endnote currently does for me.
I see two problems so far.Ā Ā
1.Ā I cannot find an easy way to import all my Endnote references to Word 2011.Ā I am sure someone will soon come up with a utility to do this, and they will get my $10 as soon as they do.
2.Ā Google Scholar does not download references directly into Word 2011, but I expect that shows up soon.
I cannot believe in itā¦no compatibility with Office 2011ā¦
Guys, Iām not going to defend Thomson because I, too, feel they should have been a bit more on top of the game in regard to Endnote compatibility with the release of Word 2011.
HOWEVERā¦ those of you who are just now discovering the citation manager in Word 2011 should know a few things about it.
Itās not anything new. It was in Word 2008. But it was horrible. In trying to use it for my dissertation, I found it completely useless. Often, the citation methods were simply wrong. But you couldnāt adjust them the way you can in Endnote. The Word citation manager was completely inflexible. In fact, I began using Endnote because of how lousy Word 2008ās citation manager was.
Before switching to Endnote, I sent numerous suggestions to Microsoft for improving their citation manager. I never heard anything back. If you have a problem with Endnote, at least you can send an email to tech support and you get a reply within a couple of days.Ā
I havenāt had time to give the citation manager in Word 2011 a thorough investigation, but I doubt itās improved.
I also doubt anyoneās going to make a $10 utility to port Endnote citations to Word when they havenāt done it for the past three years. Word is probably not open enough to make it possible.
You can run Word 2008 and Word 2011 concurrently on your computer with no problems. I confirmed this from Microsoft days before the official Office 2011 release. So, while I am waiting for the Endnote update, Iām using Word 2008 and Endnote for my dissertation. For everything else, Iām using Word 2011. I have both versions of Word installed, Iāve been running them (often at the same time) all week, and Iāve had NO problem doing so.
I agree with everyoneās frustration over the issue, and I believe that Thomson should have been more proactive. At the same time, the situation is what it is. If you really want to pay the money, Bookends is a viable alternative. But for me, since Iāve already upgraded to Endnote X4 for $100, and because Iāve already got a major project (my dissertation) in it, Iām going to be patient and wait for the update for Word 2011.
I can only hope they hurry!
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Two things render X4 unusable:
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no compability of word 2011
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the initial āpdf indexingā never finishes and crashes, I canāt even see my library.
This is dissapointing indeed, any predictions on when endnote support will be implemented?