I have a huge document that has a large number of Endnote citations that were inserted with cite while you write. However, after updating to Endnote X4, every few second the document shakes/jumps - I don’t know how to describe it. The screen isn’t going blank - it’s just a tiny shift back and forth with the whole document. It’s almost nauseating! The only way I’ve found to get rid of it is to unformat the citations. However, as soon as I format the document again, the “blips” start back up. Any thoughts on what is happening here? Is it possible that I deleted an item from the library that is cited here or something to that extent? There are easily a hundred citations in the document, so I can’t go back and delete them and put them in again.
Unlinking the document would work, but I’m still working on editing this document, so I can’t have it unlinked during the editing process, given that I’ll likely still add and remove references. (Right?)
Thanks, Leanne. I have unformatted and reformatted a few different times. A couple times it caught errors and those have been fixed, but that doesn’t change the screen problem. Given your suggestion, I tried taking out the tracked changes. While that doesn’t stop the problem, deleting the comments makes the shift only move slightly up and down and not side to side anymore, resulting in the problem being much, much more palatable. Also, when cite while you write is turned off, the problem doesn’t occur. I didn’t realize until now that I can enter citations without Cite while you write being turned on. That seems silly, given that I’ve used Endnote for so long, but I’ve just always had it turned on. So, while these don’t technically fix the aberrant behavior, they are enough of a patch that this shouldn’t be a functional problem for me anymore. Thank you!