Issue with Field Shading for Author Year formatted references in X7.2 on OSX

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I’m seeing an intermittent issue with field shading in Endnote X7.2 on OSX.

Specifically, in some documents, Endnote citations formatted in author-year format are not showing field code shading. When they are in the default format (e.g., (Smith, 2001) they are shaded, but when I convert them to author-year format (eg.,  “Smith (2001)”) they lose their field code shading.

Specifically, when I right click a reference and then click “edit citations” and then “display author (year)”, Endnote updates the citations, and briefly highlights (perhaps half a second) the author-year formatted citation with shading. And then the shading disappears.

I did not have this issue with Endnote X6. Note that I am aware about the options in Word to always show field code shading and this is on. This is frustrating because it is important to know whether text is a proper Endnote citation as opposed to just plain text.

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Interestingly, moments after posting this, it seems that if you disable “link in-text citations to references in bibliography” under “tools - endnote - configure bibliography”, the field shading returns for author-year citations.

I wonder whether the hyperlink field code was somehow hiding the endnote field code.