Endnote 2025 upgrade (from X9): issues & bugs

EndNote
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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 appreciate tips and suggestions!

Thank,
G

EndNote 2025 Issues
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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?

Thanks!

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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!

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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.

Anyways, let’s see whether they will adjust this.

Thanks for all your help!!

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Thanks. I’m still on Office 2010, though.