Hi all!
I am hoping that someone with a little computer-savvy might be able to make my life a little easier. My problem is with “Invalid class string” (ICS) and it frequently visits my workstation, destroying communication between the two programs! It’s starting to feel like Word/EndNote have a celebrity marriage…
Problem is I haven’t found the symptom of what destroys communication at this point. I will put my thoughts below, but I hope somebody can give me a permanent fix!
Bryan
- Windows 7 Pro with me as admin & UAC to the second lowest sensitivity
- Office 2010 Pro
- EndNote X5 and one big library for numerous documents at once (the library doesn’t move location on Windows)
- EndNote does not communicate with the internet or university library
- colleagues do send me documents likely edited with different E/N libraries of different versions, say, X2
- it’s an older work computer, so I DO notice older EndNotes sitting unused in Program Files (I set X5 as default)
- seems to happen “randomly”, but I usually notice it by trying to fiddle with the Style tab in Word as biblio is the absolute last thing I ever do (also means that many times, this has happened when the doc has no biblio yet)
- since I don’t often play with the biblio, I don’t know if there is a specific trigger; of the 20 times I started my docx, it could have happened on time 2 or time 20 OR the last time I restarted the computer, or etc… - I usually fix it by closing both and in Program Files (1) E/N as Administrator (2) Word as Administrator (3) send random reference through E/N to Word (4) close both & open normally