Turns out if you click backspace to delete a reference, it can mess up the code. And then crazy stuff can happen. Although you don’t really get that message loud and clear–please make sure you put that clearly in the instructions.
But the right process is a nightmare.
Instead, you need
to right click the reference
select “Edit Citations”
select “More”
select the pop down menu of the reference
5. select “remove citation”
5 steps instead of 1!!!
Do you guys realize how many times per day some of us need to do just this one thing?
Please simplify this to ONE STEP–and I mean ONE STEP!!! We can put a man on the moon, we can certainly find a way that the code does not get messed up with one delete button.
Also, simplify the procedure to add pages, suffixes etc from the window that comes up when you right click the reference. Don’t make this a Russian Doll! It’s software to make our life easier. Which in huge ways it does and we are so grateful
2) Use the Convert to Unformatted citations Hotkey
Alt+4 in Word for Windows
Control+4 in Word for Mac
3) Delete the unformatted citation or citations you want.
Attempting to manually delete a formatted EndNote citations in most cases isn’t going to cause problems.
But, that presumes that the entire code is deleted, which may not be readily apparent of the codes are hidden, or some other underlying issue with the document exists.
It’s always going to be cleaner to remove either the Unformatted version of the citation, or use the Edit and Manage Citations function, and it’s Remove Citation option to pull the citation from the document.
I do hope this helps, and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
