In checking my references in a Word 2007 manuscript I find various small errors. Fine. I correct the references in the Endnote X library that I used and use the “Format Bibliography” command in the Endnote Add-in menu within Word. The changes DON’T show up. The only way I can get them to “take” is to delete and then re-insert the reference. There’s got to be a better way. I couldn’t find any info in the Endnote help file, although it seems like an obvious thing everyone would need to do. What am I missing??
Just curious but have you checked MS Word’s “Add-ins”* to see if the 3 files associated with EndNote appear in the Active Application Add-ins list? The 3 add-in files that should be listed are: EndNote (Cwyw Citation Recognizer), EndNote Cite While You Write, and EndNote Cwyw.dotm. If one or more are missing, look at the “Inactive Application Add-ins” section, locate and select the add-in, then click the GO button. Then click OK to close the box. Return to your MS Word document and try updating the citations/references again.
If not, you could: 1) try uninstalling and re-installing EndNote (backup your .Data folder and .enl file); 2) contact Tech Support
*In MS Word, click the MS Office button, select “Word Options”, then “Add-Ins”.
Leanne, I had a go at your suggestion but coudn’t get it to work. Have I understood you correctly?
If I just go ahead and change *some* details in the library, it will update, but critically, if I change the 1st author’s surname or the date, it won’t. The only way around this is to highlight the reference in the document, then click, ‘edit library references’ and change it there. Then it should update in the document? Should I have to click something to launch this update process…?
OR - I can highlight everything - appl-A, and then click the ‘unformat citations button’…? But how do I then turn on CWYW in order to get it to pick up the references again?
Could it be because of the Windows updates? I am having a similar problem and NOTHING works. Sometimes, Windows updates messes everything up, so Im thinking this is what has happened.
I tried to follow this, but in Word 2010 the layout tab had only type and paragraph options.
I am having this problem too. I changed the reference type from book to journal article in one of the records. I’m still getting the book format in the bibliography. Whatever I try, I get a ‘command failed’ message.