Hi Susan,
Have you tried all the remedies we suggested for your earlier problems, and
have you seen any improvement?
How many months are you into your dissertation, and how many months do you
estimate remain?
It's your call, but those are some issues I would consider in deciding
whether to switch. Also possibly whether you expect to be upgrading to
Office 2004 this summer.
I should think that to transfer to Bookends, which I have *no* experience
with, you woud need to Unformat the paper with Endnote, then probably delete
all the EN fields and replace them with Bookends fields. Don't know if a
Find and Replace would help there. Uninstall the Endnote add-in before
installing the Bookends one.
I have no idea what usage of Bookends is and suggest you scour their site
for any sort of support mechanism and email them to ask about corruption
with Word, as the absence of complaints here is not authoritative proof of
smooth compatibility, I think lots of Mac-using academics don't know this
group exists. I suspect they are a company that will answer email. Google
the web and newsgroups for the same thing. Also play with the Bookends in
demo mode and read the entire user guide before deciding to switch.
Dayo
PS. I was actually wondering about the possibility of keeping Endnote
simply to search remote libraries, since Bookends seems to be very limited
in search filters, then importing the libraries into Bookends periodically
when I needed to use them for citations. How tricky does the import process
seem? Do you think that would work?
