Is there any way to remove brackets from only some of my citations?

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I have a list of in-text citations of the form (name, year).  I want to remove the brackets from them all, about 90 in total.  I can’t just type them out because I want the in my reference list.  I don’t want to remove brackets from ALL the citations in my document, just this particular list.

I know that I can re-type each one in plain text then choose the “Remove author and year” within “Edit and Manage Citations”.  But each one will take 2 mins +.  My EndNote is very slow.  

Is there any way I can select a whole lot of citations and have them display as plain text without impacting the other citations in the document?  Or can I select a whole lot of citations and change the way they are displayed without impacting the unselected ones (ie. a bulk “Remove author and year”.)

I have seen an older post on this and the answer 3 years ago was “no” - hoping there might be a resolution by now or i’ll be spending the next few days dealing with these one by one.  

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Use endnote X7, right click bracketed in text citation and choose show only in referances. Then just type the Authors name in. 

4

Thank you so much for this oh so easy answer…works like a charm.

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I use Microsoft Word.

Right-Click on the reference in the document. 

Choose. Edit citation, more, formatting

From the dropdown box, choose Display as: Author (year)

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So helpful! Thanks so much!