I recently upgraded my X9 Endnote version to 2025. (OS: MS 2010 Home, Office 2010). I’ve encountered a few issues and have a few questions:
Bug: for some reason, it takes a good few seconds each time I want to insert an entry into my word document, I need to change it, it needs to update etc. When I returned to X9 for a sec, it was so quick! Anyone a suggestion how to improve speed?
Issue: when I copy a part of the reference entry (copy+c) from the Endnote app library entry it will insert in a different font type and size. With X9 it would be inserted with the same font size/type. So now I have to change that each time I do that. Also, suggestions welcome!
Issue: I want to get rid of the ‘Summary’ - it has no use for me as it is all in massive fonts for some reason, and I only want to have the ‘edit’ and the ‘full citation’ views there as I don’t use none of the rest. Anyone a suggestion how I can achieve that?
Issue: Maybe because of access reasons on my side, but the icons (e.g. for adding a new reference, which is the only one I’ve ever used in 16ys) are very large and are taking up space of the entries etc. Anyone a suggestion how do to this? …I would be happy with ‘text’ (‘add’) rather than an icon as it would take up no extra space next to the ‘All References’. And the number of ‘all references’ could be next to the text ‘All References’. And the space around all that could be minimal. All this would save so much space so I can actually see a list with references!
I can only suggest - for the first issue, that you try making a copy of your document, and then unformat citations and bibliography (NOT TO PLAIN TEXT) and then update them – it is often that changing from an older version of Endnote to a new version, especially skipping two or more versions - that the buried field information is inconsistent with the newer version. If that isn’t enough, you could convert, remove any residual field codes. Word option is different in Windows Use CTRL + A to select all, then CTRL + SHIFT + F9
and Mac Command-A to select all, then [Apple]+6 or [Command]+6 (above the “T” and “Y” key)
Issue: when I copy a part of the reference entry (copy+c) from the Endnote app library entry it will insert in a different font type and size. With X9 it would be inserted with the same font size/type. So now I have to change that each time I do that. Also, suggestions welcome!
Ctrl + Shift + V (to paste unformated) but it might be that the underlying font in your document template is different from something manually applied?
I have the same thing when I copy-pasted a reference in a completely empty document!
The doc I’m current working in has 424 references so I’m afraid going through them one by one is perhaps not realistic right now. What would be ‘residual field codes’ - like, what do I need to look out for?
The font in my document is Arial 12pt. The font of Endnote apparently is MS old font - i.e. Segoe UI 13pt. I know the unformatted copy-pasting (but Ctrl+Shift+V doesn’t work), but it’s an extra step. And before this update it wasn’t necessary.
Another thing is that also this takes a couple of seconds (including pasting it unformatted). Very peculiar!
Yes, it’s beyond me. For me, it makes the app almost unusable as there is almost no space to actually see references OR the selected reference. This is so wild to me. Why would they not allow users decided for themselves? And why would they make it so inaccessible for those of us have adjusted OS settings - as I assume that is where the issue lies.
As long as all the citations are there, it should go quickly and update them-- but that is why on a copy, in case it doesn’t. Sounds like there might be some corruption (but I am still on Endnote 21). Cleaning up the real codes should remove any corruption. – with the paste in word, word did change the way the ctrl+shft+v worked, and is it possible you had the legacy behaviour and a new install is now in the “new” MS behaviour? I remember this happening to me in 2023 at some point…