This has just occured to me also today, despite working fine previously, no other changes made. Can still edit citations already in document but cannot add new ones in this document or a new one. Also tried removing formatting , copy into new doucment and reformatting. Was in X7 and updated to x8.
Reading your post John (pls see post above from jfullert) sorted out a horrible error with EndNote ‘‘Can’t edit range’’. I did exactly what John said and it sorted out the error immediately. The error of ‘‘Can’t edit range’’ came up with my Endnote after I signed up and installed Mendeley. For whoever is experiencing the same problem just follow exactly what John said to remove Mendeley’s Add-Ins from Word, Thanks so much John, very much appreciated indeed.
Just change the style in your word document. It should be consistent with the previous citation style. Once you change the style it will work and you can change the one you want from the style list.
This hasn’t worked for me unfortunately. I removed Mendeley as a programme and add-in in Word but I have the same issue with EndNote.
I mainly use the online version of EndNote but this problem appears with the desktop version as well. Also, I don’t always get a ‘cannot edit range’ error - if I try to add a new reference to a document with existing Endnote reference, it adds them as text within the document, rather than following the selected referencing style.
Any other suggestions? I’ve also tried ‘repairing’ Word but that didn’t seem to work either.
– respond on your other new stand alone thread: can you describe how you add the citations? – and maybe some screen shots? Is the Endnote ribbon correctly installed in word?
I encountered this same error again (months after the earlier notice). I had installed a new update (not developmental version) to Mendeley and when I tried to add a citation from EndNote I got the “cannot edit range” message. I followed the earlier notes (some of which I had written!) and that did not resolve the problem with my citation not being formatted. I followed the steps mentioned and unchecked Mendeley as a Word Add-in and also as a Word template. When I started Word again (or maybe opened my document) I saw a status line message in the left column of Word, something to the effect that Mendeley was formatting citations. However, no citations were formatted and I had added the one citation in the document with EndNote. What worked was opening Mendeley desktop, going to the Tools menu, and uninstalling the Word plug-in. After that, adding new citations in Word worked correctly. (I think the one footnote I had added before, which was still in the temporary citation format as a footnote, was not reformatting even when I had clicked reformat citations. However, I could see a new test footnote format, so I may have deleted my original footnote and then added it back.)
I was using Windows 10 and EndNote X8.2.
I’d like to add that I DO appreciate Mendeley and use it for reading and highlighting pdfs. I like how it works for that purpose and the fact that desktop and online are both good access methods and that desktop installation on different computers synchronize with the online library very well. However, I’m more accustomed to using EndNote for citations and how it works in Word.