How can I change the outputstyle so that an en-dash is used instead of a hyphon for ranges?

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Hello everyone,

I am writing a german PhD and in German one has to use the – (en-dash)  for ranges between numbers instead of a - (hyphon) . So 7–10 instead of 7-10.

When i have a few consecutive citations the Word fieldfunction will automatically write blabla7-10 (in superscript form)

I could only find the option to deactivate ranges altogehter in Endnote. How can I change the Outputstyle so that an endash (–) will be used within the fieldfunktion of the text?

Thank you very much for any help

Julian

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Currently you cannot have EndNote using an en-dash instead of a hyphen.

If you would like to see this feature in a future version of EndNote, You may want to submit a request for a product enhancement on our website.

http://community.thomsonreuters.com/t5/EndNote-Product-Suggestions/bd-p/en-suggest

As a workaround you can wait until then end of your writting then remove the EndNote codes in the document then do a Find and Replace in Word to change the Hyphens to En-Dashes.

You can find the steps for Converting to Plain Text on our website:

https://support.clarivate.com/Endnote/s/article/EndNote-Manual-changes-made-to-the-citations-or-bibliography-are-overwritten-by-EndNote-in-a-document?language=en_US

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However, it has been asked for in Suggestions, many times.  Here is an example of one thread.

http://community.thomsonreuters.com/t5/EndNote-Product-Suggestions/En-dashes-instead-of-hyphens-in-ranges/td-p/18175

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I agree that an option to change from a hyphen to an endash in in-line citation ranges would be very useful. Endnote has a solution for changing this in the references in the bibliography

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbV_4k-wMtw

so it would seem that such a tweak should be possible for ranges in the text itself. Best, Kai