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                      Re>Record Numbers
While it is true that record numbers should be, for the most part, a non-issue
to users, there are instances in which it is helpful or even necessary to have
control over them. For instance, in the work I do, I use quite a bit of Mac to
Unix and back porting. It's helpful in this circumstance to have all my record
numbers start at 1000 instead of 1. To do this, I created a new library,
created an entry with one character in it, and then cut and pasted it 1000
times (actually, using Command-A, you get a geometric progression; i.e., 1, 2,
4, 8, 16, 32..., so it doesn't take too long). I then deleted those false entrie
s
and pasted in my real ones. Voila! Record numbers beginning at 1000.

To remove unused numbers in your libraries, just create a new library, select
all in the old one, and paste all the references into the new one. This will
renumber them.

*WARNING* As Avi has mentioned before, EndNote depends upon these record
numbers to format papers, so if you have papers that are still
works-in-progress, don't mess up the library you need to format them with!

-Chris Payne
CTPayne@lbl.gov