I have been working on a paper the last half a year and Endnote and Word have worked seamlessly together. However, for no apparent reason, from yesterday I can’t insert citations properly.
Whenever I try, an Endnote dialog box with “The range cannot be deleted” comes up. My reference list at the end of the paper is not changed despite the addition of the reference.
I have updated my endnote to the latest edition. have tried formatting, unformatting and re-formatting my bibliography without success. Please help. I have used endnote very happily and relied on it for many years on my theses and this is the first time I have had a problem happen. My paper is due in a few weeks and without endnote it would be impossible to finish.
Thank you very much. Any help is greatly appreciated.
You don’t seem to have gotten any replies here, and this sounds like an issue that may require some troubleshooting. I have therefore entered a ticket for you in our Technical Support system.
You should be contacted by one of our reps in 1 to 2 business days. Have a great day!
I have exactly the same problem as JWill described here and also used re-formatting the library but to no avail.
In my case I inserted an EndNote reference in a table but I was deleting sections in my report with many references as well, so not sure to which activity the problem relates.
I have Copy + Pasted the whole document into a new Word file but that doesn’t solve the problem (although it reduced the size by 80%). I’ve checked Google and this seems to be a recognised error message related to Visual Basic.
Typically these problems arise close to deadlines, it would be great if I could get either an answer online or otherwise an email from Technical Support to resolve this problem.
I am at the end of writing my thesis and inexplicably I am having the same problem you had. When I insert a ref, it remains in the field code format and won’t update in my bibliography or as a consecutive number in the text. Then it comes up with ‘The range cannot be deleted’. Do you know how i can fix this problem??? I’m running out of time
I came across this thread while I was trying to track down help for the same problem in Reference Manager. Just curious what solution Technical Support found for this question to see if we can apply it to our problem as well
While this error does seem to come up frequently, it’s cause is not really completely cut and dry. It can be very different issues happening in each of the word documents you are using. It may be a table that has gotten corrupt, or a damaged field code somewhere in your specific document. Almost all of these cases I have seen have been due to specific issues in a word document, not a problem with an EndNote Library or Output Style. One thing to note is the problem may not be in the section of the document you are adding a citation to- when EndNote formats the document, it touches the whole document top to bottom, so you might be working on the last section when the problematic part of the document where the format is getting stuck may be on page one.
One troubleshooting step that’s easy to try would be to copy and paste each half of the Word document into 2 different New files. Try formatting each half. If one section formats, the bad citation/problematic code is in the other section.
As always, if you are still having problems with this, contact us in technical support for further help, as this will be very specific to each of the files anyone is working with.
Thanks,
Colin
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I’m sorry to hear you’re still having trouble. As mentioned by Colin above, if you are still having problems with this after trying the steps he and I mentioned, contact us in technical support for further assistance, as this will be specific to the files each of you are working with.
