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Yep, in order to get the option to reformat, the citation markers became
more
fragile.  One of those things we'd like to avoid, but can't.

> I want to copy text with citation markers from one file to another - it
> takes ages;

Because Word is copying citations onto the clipboard in complex formats.
Try
saving your original file with Full Save (i.e. click off the Fast Save check

box).  If Word's Fast Save has concatenated the changes to the end of the
document, it will take substantially longer.

> when I try to merge multiple citations into a group or
> move them around within a group.  ENP seems to leave "hidden" markers, and
> in formatting fails to recognize citations.  The anly way round this is to
> go back to the master library, re-select all the citations and re-insert.
> This is a nuisance.

You don't have to merge multiple citations by hand any more (and you can't,
because the Module gets confused).  When you insert multiple citations next
to
each other, and format, the Module will merge them for you.

example: (in which <> stand for Module citation markers)

<Durbrow, 1990 #4><Sanborn, 1993 #421> becomes (Durbrow, 1990; Sanborn,
1993)

There's a preference to turn it off, but it defaults to merging.  This is
described on page 39 of the Plug-In Module manual.

To move citations around in a group, you have to retype the citation in the
location you want.  Select the citation and unformat it first, if it's been
formatted.

You can't just copy and paste part of the citation, because we were worried
about people selecting parts of citations and not being able to format
later.
So when you select and Copy (or Cut), the Module autoselects the entire
citation.  But when I tested this, I just retyped the second citation first,

reformatted it, and it worked.

Please remember that the style will automatically sort multiple citations
unless you have clicked on the Don't Sort button or you are using Order of
Appearance in the style.

These are complex issues, and I wish we could make them easier.  But in
order
to have the Plug-In Module reformat papers, we had to do some weird stuff.


Yours,

Avi Rappoport
Niles & Associates, Inc.