Updating the bibliography takes minutes

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Hey there,

I recently updated my Word 2011 to Word 2016 on my MacBook. Of course I do have the new Endnote Version X7 (Update) as well.

The document I am working with is approximately 80pages long and has 130 references. 

Decribing the problem:

When I am inserting new citations it tooks more than 2 minutes to update the entire bibliography. I cannot work this way - it is so annoying. 

When I used Word2011 it tooks around a minute. My dads computer (Windows) was even faster (10 seconds)?

Is Endnote that bad with macs? Hopefully somebody can help me!

Thank you very very much for your help!!!1

Chris

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Since you’ve upgraded both MS Word and Endnote you might try “reformatting” the citations. First make a backup copy of your document for safekeeping. Then convert the in-text citations to unformatted citations. This will cause the in-text citations to appear with the curly braces and record numbers as “temporary citations”. Next, convert the temporary citations back to formatted citations.