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>In article <ENDNOTE%93051908304398@UCSBVM.BITNET>, "D. Berg"
><BERGA@UOFMCC.BITNET> writes:
>> Concerning EndNote Plus for PC.  Having deleted a number of
>> redundant references from my growing library, the following
>> question arose.  Is there anyway of reclaiming the use of the
>> numbers (sequence numbers in EndNote) for which references have
>> been deleted and will remain deleted?

>I would assume you could export the references to Refer or another
>format and then read them back in.  Might lose some information, though.

You can do this but the existing ID numbers would be changed.  This is a
problem if you ever reformat an old paper with the with temporary citations
created with the old version of the bibliographic database.  EndNote won't
be able to match the old temporary citations because the ID numbers in the
old citations don't match the new ID numbers in the database.

I ran into this problem when I merged two databases.  All the temporary
citations I had copied from the previous database were no longer matched.
This is despite the fact that the authors and dates in the temporary
citations should have been sufficient to do the match.  I solved the
problem by removing the ID numbers from the temporary citations in the
paper and everything worked fine thereafter.  It was an annoyance however.

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