EndNote for Word 2016 for Mac.

From Jonathan1:

“Now using the official release of Office 2016 provided by my University through Office 365. Stunned to discover Endnote is not working. Preivew has been out for months! I understand not supporting it then, but what were you guys doing during that time? There should be day one support of an official release, no excuses.”

From Forbes:

Thomson Reuters

Market Cap As of May 2015

  • $33.2 Billion

Industry

Printing & Publishing

Founded

1851

Country

United States

CEO

James Smith

Website

http://www.thomsonreuters.com

Employees

53,000

Sales

$12.61 B

Headquarters

New York, New York

Jonathan, I think you’re asking too much of this company. They’ll get to it when the cash flow improves.

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53,000 employees and $12.61 sells?? And they cannot release a plugin for their expensive software!! I would not dare to demand a plugin from Zotero or Mendeley, those are free, but Endnote charges, even for the updates! They are forced to release the plugin or a new version! And that release cannot come at the end of the year or next summer, it has to come right now!

The only way you can effect change is to hit a company as large as TR where they will feel it.  Start calling for them to fix this issue via social media, #FixEndNoteMS2016.  Get enough people calling for them to fix this, and get it trending - branding tends to make orgs work faster.  Here are the two twitter handles… I’m sure they have others on other social media outlets.

@EndNoteNews

@thomsonreuters

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Thank you all for your feedback and patience regarding EndNote CWYW and Word 2016 for Mac compatibility.  We are actively developing a free update for X7 at this time. We anticipate it will be ready in early Fall and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.

We understand & appreciate EndNote’s importance to your research workflow and have developed recommendations to enable your continued use of EndNote while we work on the patch. Please visit our Knowledge Base for more information and to view recommendations: http://bit.ly/1LChMms

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http://endnote.com/kb/136020  is a working link to the knowlegebase article to which atownsend refers.  

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The sad exuse of a solution from TR is: you’re on your own.

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It’s good that there is a workaround, cumbersome though it may be. For that I thank TR.

As suggested by their caveat that CWYW doesn’t work on documents in the Cloud, rather only those saved on the computer, maybe the technical issues are indeed formidable, and have to do more with working in the Cloud than with the changes in Word version itself. I certainly don’t know–I just use the programs.

But it still begs the question as to why, with the kind of lead TR has had with Office 365 and Word 2016, it is taking them so long to surmount the difficulties, great though they may be. I mean, software version upgrades always force third party developers to scramble, and a company as big as TR could reasonably be expected to do better, sooner.

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Could you be clearer?

I live in Australia and “the Fall” is over - it’s winter now. By “the Fall”, do you mean 1 September or 30 Novermber?

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Unfortunately, they don’t mean either. They mean - some vague time in the next 4 months when they get around to it.

TRs Mac division is so understaffed they didn’t see this coming 4 months in advance like the world did.

Winter is 12/21/2016 in the US, so that is apparently their internal “deadline”

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By “the Fall,” we do mean Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. We do not have an exact release date at this time, but will certainly update that as soon as we have more information. If you need any assistance with this, please do not hesitate to contact Technical Support:

http://endnote.com/support

Our Technical Support Representatives are available to assist you with getting your documents formatted and the information provided in http://endnote.com/kb/136020 as well as the Format Paper steps outlined in this article: http://endnote.com/kb/136016

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This is discouraging news. Really wish TR could be more timely with the release of this update. An ‘Autumn’ release is a bit ridiculous.

To the moderator, this short message of disappointment is a greatly attenuated expression of my frustration. I never register for these forums, but felt compelled to do so here to express my dissatisfaction with the delay in application support.  

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Mendeley is, without a doubt, a much better option than the expensive and useless option that the pathetic EN is. Shame on you Thomson Reuters.

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I am not sure Mendeley have released a Word 2016 compatible version either.  

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You’re correct–the Mendeley plug-in doesn’t work yet in Word 2016. It loads, but not properly, and when you load Word, it gives an error message.

@leanne wrote:

I am not sure Mendeley have released a Word 2016 compatible version either.  

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Probably, but they don’t charge $249.95+.

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That’s not very good. We can only wait or get back to Office 2011. 

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I can certainly understand your frustration. We are working to release a working set of compatible Cite While You Write tools for Word 2016 as quickly as possible. In the meantime, please feel free to contact Technical Support if you need assistance getting a document formatted:

http://endnote.com/support

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Hi All, 

I have done some work on a doccument in Word 2016 then come back to my older computer with Word 2011 on it. 

For some reason now, I can seem to get Endnote to work and it just inserts a reference 

{Central Intelligence Agency, 2015 #31} and no reference down in the bottom part of the doccument???

I can not find anywhere how to fix this, any solutions would be much appriciated. 

Regards Dave. 

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I have excatly the same issue!

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Word 2016 in itself is still very buggy. I recommend a few more months to work with Word 2011.

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