EndNote for Word 2016 for Mac.

How will we know when the plug in is available?

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Thanks … I have reinstalled 2011 and everything is working fine again. Thanks so much 

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I realize this sort of post doesn’t help much, but I just feel the need to comment.

It’s been 4 months since the Word 2016 beta preview was announced, and I’ve had Preview versions for at least a couple months now. The official version was released last week.

Yes, it’s true you can continue using Word 2011 for the Mac along side the Office 365 (2016) Word, but that’s no excuse for a company as big as Thomson Reuters not to have a working version, even just a beta version, of EndNote for Word 2016. For those of us who use FWYW, it simply means we can’t use the newer version of Word until TR comes up with something.

On my Mac, I have Yosemite, but the first public beta preview version of the next OS, El Capitan, was released last week. No, I’m not going to upgrade the OS to a beta preview for my primary, working computer, but the 3rd party Mac developers are already sending out upgrades of their software to be compatible with El Capitan, even though it won’t be official until September or so.

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DO NOT UNINSTALL!!!

I was about to uninstall office 2016 mac when i ran across my 2011 version still chilling in my applications!! 

On you computer click Finder>applications>Microsoft office 2011>microsoft word!

I almost shouted for joy in the library when I realized this! 

Keep both versions if you have the computer space until endnote is updated!!! 

Hope im not too late! =)

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They simply do not care, people are posting the same in Facebook and here, I have consulted with technical service, there is not an official statement. They are programmers, not researchers like us, they do not care about the citation plugins

Mendeley has already announced that they will have a plugin in 2 weeks, I guess we would need to migrate to Mendeley, because Thomson Reuters is not interested in creating a plugin and they do not even think in giving us a release date.

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U r right, it has already one week of release, TR has no value of time, do they not know how many people using these; they should  be more caring for their clients

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I am also waitig

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I have been using Endnote since 1992! Each time a new version of Word came out they took months to get an update for Endnote. I totally agree with all the negative opinions of TR as a big corporation that does not seem to appreciate the value of customer satisfaction. Maybe I can understand this attitude when the Mac was a marginal product with only a small market share and one foot in the grave. But now that the Mac is so widely used, especially in academia, it is inexcusable that Word 16 preview can be out in March and that they don’t have a version of the CWYW pluging that works with it. It is infuriating that they don’t even let us know when to expect one.

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Let’s hope that it will not take MONTHS (!!), that would be absolutely horrible. Truth is that I find it difficult to suggest Endnote to fellow colleagues as support for mac is suboptimal (considering mendeley, papersapp, etc).

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Now using the official release of Office 2016 provided by my University through Office 365. Stunned to discover Endnote is not working. Preivew has been out for months! I understand not supporting it then, but what were you guys doing during that time? There should be day one support of an official release, no excuses. 

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From Jonathan1:

“Now using the official release of Office 2016 provided by my University through Office 365. Stunned to discover Endnote is not working. Preivew has been out for months! I understand not supporting it then, but what were you guys doing during that time? There should be day one support of an official release, no excuses.”

From Forbes:

Thomson Reuters

Market Cap As of May 2015

  • $33.2 Billion

Industry

Printing & Publishing

Founded

1851

Country

United States

CEO

James Smith

Website

http://www.thomsonreuters.com

Employees

53,000

Sales

$12.61 B

Headquarters

New York, New York

Jonathan, I think you’re asking too much of this company. They’ll get to it when the cash flow improves.

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53,000 employees and $12.61 sells?? And they cannot release a plugin for their expensive software!! I would not dare to demand a plugin from Zotero or Mendeley, those are free, but Endnote charges, even for the updates! They are forced to release the plugin or a new version! And that release cannot come at the end of the year or next summer, it has to come right now!

The only way you can effect change is to hit a company as large as TR where they will feel it.  Start calling for them to fix this issue via social media, #FixEndNoteMS2016.  Get enough people calling for them to fix this, and get it trending - branding tends to make orgs work faster.  Here are the two twitter handles… I’m sure they have others on other social media outlets.

@EndNoteNews

@thomsonreuters

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Thank you all for your feedback and patience regarding EndNote CWYW and Word 2016 for Mac compatibility.  We are actively developing a free update for X7 at this time. We anticipate it will be ready in early Fall and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.

We understand & appreciate EndNote’s importance to your research workflow and have developed recommendations to enable your continued use of EndNote while we work on the patch. Please visit our Knowledge Base for more information and to view recommendations: http://bit.ly/1LChMms

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http://endnote.com/kb/136020  is a working link to the knowlegebase article to which atownsend refers.  

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The sad exuse of a solution from TR is: you’re on your own.

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It’s good that there is a workaround, cumbersome though it may be. For that I thank TR.

As suggested by their caveat that CWYW doesn’t work on documents in the Cloud, rather only those saved on the computer, maybe the technical issues are indeed formidable, and have to do more with working in the Cloud than with the changes in Word version itself. I certainly don’t know–I just use the programs.

But it still begs the question as to why, with the kind of lead TR has had with Office 365 and Word 2016, it is taking them so long to surmount the difficulties, great though they may be. I mean, software version upgrades always force third party developers to scramble, and a company as big as TR could reasonably be expected to do better, sooner.

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Could you be clearer?

I live in Australia and “the Fall” is over - it’s winter now. By “the Fall”, do you mean 1 September or 30 Novermber?

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Unfortunately, they don’t mean either. They mean - some vague time in the next 4 months when they get around to it.

TRs Mac division is so understaffed they didn’t see this coming 4 months in advance like the world did.

Winter is 12/21/2016 in the US, so that is apparently their internal “deadline”

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