How to manually edit?

I’m using the Society of Biblical Literature output style with Endnote X4 – the style is tremendously (and needlessly) complicated, and it appears as if I’m going to have to manually edit most of my footnotes before I submit my manuscript.

Is there a way to disable EndNote temporarily while I do this so that I can edit every part of the reference without it getting upset? Would it be easier to just pull up the word document on a computer that doesn’t have EndNote?

Thanks in advance for your input.

This is very helpful, thank you!

For some reason, even when the function is off, I’m not able to edit punctuation at the end of citations…when I try to delete a period, for example, the entire citation goes away.

That is EXACTLY what I’m looking for. Thank you!