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>There's been correspondence about delays using the PIM with Word 5.  I'm
>sure I'm not the only user who's using the PIM but routinely converting to
>text citations to save time and memory.  The PIM is great for verifying
>bibliographies without having to creat a duplicate document, but the
>markers can give problems particularly if you do global style changes or
>if you want to move citations around. I recently accidentally converted an
>entire manuscript to superscript, which of course my grammar and spell
>checker couldn't see.  I now convert to text citations every time I save.
>Convert back when I want to format using the PIM.  The PIM markers also
>increase the size of your file significantly (I haven't quantitated that).
>
I'm curious about the difficulties you mention because your experience
doesn't sound at all like anything I've experienced. Perhaps you can give
some more details. For example, what model Macintosh are you using, how
much memory do you have installed, what version of Word 5 are you using
(you should have 5.1a to avoid some possible font/style problems), how much
memory do you allocate to Word.

Also, when you mention "global style changes" do you mean that you select
the whole document and then change font or font size? Doing global changes
this way without using Word's styles feature is bound to cause trouble in a
number of ways; much better results are obtained by defining a Word style
and then changing the style definition to effect changes in font and size
as well as numerous other character and paragraph characteristics like line
spacing, tab settings and so forth.

What problems have you seen with the markers? Moving them has never been a
problem for me, especially if I click on the leading marker of an
unformatted citation to highlight the whole citation before cutting and
pasting it somewhere else.

How do you see a saving in time by routinely converting to text citations?
It seems to me that the time taken by the conversion process would very
quickly eat up any time savings; sounds like there is something wrong if
there is so much difference in speed between a document with text citations
and one with plug-in module citations.

Please let us know some more details, maybe we can get it to work better
for you.

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Dana E. Keil           Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
dana@are.Berkeley.EDU                 University of California, Berkeley