This relates to EndNote X9 and the Cite As You Write plugin for MS Word.
It’s very nice and useful that EndNote creates a paragraph style named EndNote Bibliography in a Word document when adding a bibliography. Any bibliography should always have a paragraph style of its own applied, and it’s useful that EndNote automatically connects the bibliography to a paragraph style.
What is not nice – in fact, it’s extremely annoying – is that every time the bibliography is updated (i.e., every time you add or edit a formatted citation in the document), the entire bibliography gets manual overrides applied. In the Configure Bibliography → Layout options, I’ve managed to make the font stick so at least I don’t have to look at Calibri every time I update anything; but the indentation options don’t work. The paragraph style specifies a hanging indent, but no matter what I put in the indentation options (see attached screenshot), the end result is that there is no indent of any kind in the formatted bibliography. A manual override of “Left: 0 cm, First line: 0 cm” is always applied, which makes the bibliography impossible to navigate.
Removing these overrides is a fairly straightforward matter – just select the entire bibliography and re-apply the EndNote Bibliography style – but it’s very annoying to have to do this every time you add, edit or update anything.
Is there any way to change this frustrating behaviour to stop the plugin from applying any manual overrides to the paragraph style? Ideally, I would like to somehow tell the plugin to completely ignore the entire Configure Bibliography → Layout tab and all the options in it. Is this possible?