Hello,
I am not very certain of the definition of “corruption”. It makes sense intuitively that the problem is some corruption in the Word document, but maybe you could specify a little more on that definition so I can look for something to resolve it?
When I paste into a new Word document, I do use the Special Paste options, and from them I choose “Formatted Tex ”, but still all the formats of my original thesis are not preserved. Is that what you meant before?
Ok, now this is what I did. I changed the Endnote temporary delimiters to something very unique: ¿ !
Then I repeated all the process above: Unformatted citations in the old DOCX (8m31s35). Again, each one of the unformatted citations looks like this:
¿Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241!
It repeats 9 times each now! It seems every time I unformat, it adds a new one (even though is a different copy of the original DOCX)
Got rid of the hidden fields with CTRL+6, passed to a new DOCX and reformatted. This time it took 14m23s92 and it did work. All the citations were formatted.
However,
If I want to edit something in the new documents (with a lot of work to do in recovering my text formatting that got lost), this process must be repeatable. Hence, a second run:
Unformat in this new DOCX: 4m47s52, and each reference looks like:
¿Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241;Rodriguez, 2014 #241!
I reformat in this new DOCX, after CTRL+6:, then
-At 3m51s03, I got the message “this command is not available”, then the message “Cannot edit range,”and the process aborts.
-I try to reformat again: At 4m58s20 I got the message “The specified range is not from the correct document or story”… and then I find that the citations did format, but strange bugs appear are all over the place (image attached). It seems the problem is still there. This is frustating. btw I appreciate your help with this.
Regards,
P.S. I also chose the option in Word not to show hyperlinks (if that is what you meant before)