Regarding the post above, I would like to add the following product suggestion: With long documents it gets really tiresome to insert citations as it is a two step process:
[1] Inserert citation
[2] Edit citation
Each time one has to wait one minute until the whole document gets scanned (at least with Word for Mac 2011).
Therefore: Could you please reduce this to a one step process?
[1] Insert citation opens the edit citation dialogue at the same time: Therefore I can already inserat the citation with the desired prefix, suffix and page number
This would make endnote much much faster on the side of its application.
I rarely edit my citations, so that would make me really annoyed and certainly slow me down. Please at least ask for an option to do this, and not impose it on all the users of this software.
Editing citations was much easier when they didn’t have CWYW a looong time ago. Once you learned how to enter it in the raw format, it is much faster and much easier. then format at the end. (and you can certainly turn off CWYW and use this method now.) That is also why I like to be able to unformat one citation at times, but with all the rules on 1st time cited, subsequent times cites, and footnote rules, I understand that is difficult for developers to achieve. (It is also why endnote needs to scan all the citations I guess).
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nantoga wrote:
[1] Insert citation opens the edit citation dialogue at the same time: Therefore I can already inserat the citation with the desired prefix, suffix and page number
This would make endnote much much faster on the side of its application.
thank you for giving this example: THAT IS EXACTLY WHY I POSTED this product suggestion. I certainly do not want to »forget« (not use) CWYW as I really think this is a good feature.
Such a simple thing as insert and at the same time edit a citation would be heavily desired by myself (and I guess other people agree).Â
Besides, are you trying to tell other people what they are allowed to post as product suggestions or what is your comment really about? You didn’t even post a solution but - that was the good part of your post - showed clearly why this feature would be needed.
Sorry, I am just another user pointing out why I would not like the feature you propose of one click and then me haveing to close a window asking if I want to further edit a citation. Sorry.Â
Actually, I don’t think that the endnote-people are so stupid to not realize how to implement a product suggestion in a useful way if they are willing to accept the suggestion.
Anyway, your comment helps to specify the product suggestion:
CWYW-Functionality: It would be nice to reduce the two step process of inserting a citation and then edit the citation (add page number, prefix and suffix or whatsoever) to a one step process.
DESIRED SOLUTION:
Insert citation opens the edit citation dialogue at the same time: Therefore I can already inserat the citation with the desired prefix, suffix and page number
And: As user Leanne has pointed out, this feature should be implemented additionally in case somebody wants to insert a citation without editing it.
THEREFORE:
One Button to INSERT and AT THE SAME TIME edit
One Button to only INSERT (as it is implemented right now X7)
(Hopefully this will stop user Leanne now from attacking other users posting product suggestions
PLEASE do this. I am writing a dissertation and several papers all using APA and about a bazillion citations. For every one I have to search for the citation, enter, wait for it to upload, right-click it, click edit, click “more” then enter the page number, then click ok, then wait for it to read through all the citations again.
Even with a new very fast computer, this takes a while. And it would be so easy to shorten the number of clicks, even if we can’t have one-time entry of page numbers when first adding the citation–if that’s some sort of programming nightmare, then, could “add page number” at LEAST be added to the “edit citation” list when we right-click the citation?Â
Insert citation doesn’t open edit citation for me.  Or is this just another problem with owning an Apple Mac?
If it is possible to enter a page number when the citation is created, then could someone please enlighten me as doing everything twice is driving me crazy. I would greatly appreciate it if you can help
