Saving Word document with EndNote references for use on a non EndNote system

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How do you save a Word document that used EndNote references so that a person on a non EndNote system can view the document with references and Bibliography?  I wrote a lengthy dissertation, and now want to send the Word document to an editor to proof and print. The editor uses a totally different tool for formating. The tool can import Word, but I doubt it knows anything about EndNote. Am I hosed?

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I forgot to mention I am running Word 2007, Windows 7, EndNote X.

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Save a copy of the document.  Then in Word, use the EndNote tab and click on “Convert Citations and Bibliography” and select “Convert to Plain text”  This will remove the EndNote encoding but leave the citations and bibliography as you see them.

If you need to make changes, you will want to go back to the original file that has the EndNote encoding still active and manually make changes to that copy so that you can reformat the references if needed.

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Thanks.

However, I do not have an  “Convert Citations and Bibliography” under the EndNote Addin. Is this option available at the EndNote X  level or am I just missing it?  As indicated in the other post the “remove field codes” option would work, but will force me to reformat the entire paper as it messes with the Normal Style. If I could use the convert option, that would meet my needs much better. 

At this point I don’t think I have much need to go back and re edit. Once I send a copy to the editor, I will not need to resync (if I do , I will just make the type the changes into my original).

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With one slight modification your suggestion works great. (select all with Ctrl+A and then unlink all fields with Ctrl+Shift+F9). I did this in two steps to avoid unlinking items that I did not want unlinked (i.e. the Word Table of Contents). I first selected and unlinked the EndNote Bibliography. Then I put the cursor on a footnote so that when I did a Ctrl+A it only selected the footnote area of the paper. Thus when I did the Ctrl+Shift+F9 it only unlinked all the footnotes. All the other linked fields in the paper (the ones unassociated with EndNote) were unaffected. The only way it would be easier is if the command mentioned above by wwdove was available (I assume that it only exists for later versions of EndNote).

Thanks for all the help. It saved me major headaches. I may yet get my dissertation done by the deadline at this rate.

Danny