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In article <CuMJLL.3CI@liverpool.ac.uk> ulli@liverpool.ac.uk (Mr U.A.W. Wilson) writes:

>Dear EndNote users (and Niles),

>A colleague has a collection of 3700+  references that she has accumulated over
>a period of years in a database she created using Microsoft File (v2.0). 
>She now wishes to move them into EN+.  I suspect the way to do this would
>be to go via the REFER format, tagging the fields from MS File appropriately.
>Has any one done such a transfer?  Any advice or instructions would be 
>appreciated.

If your colleague is in the sciences, the problem I'm about to describe 
probably isn't an issue.

In the humanities, one frequently has book titles that contain the titles of 
other books. When such a title is stored in the EndNote database, the title 
might contain underlining or italics, etc.

But on export to refer format, the special formatting is lost. And so far as I 
know there's no way to mark refer records in such a way that when they're 
imported into endnote that the formatting is preserved.

In short: If your data depends on noting titles within titles with special 
fonts, etc., you may have a problem with importing and exporting.

	John N.
	jgn+@osu.edu

P.S. I might add that EndNote *should* provide a option for, say, turning 
*off* italics when an entire title is italicized which in turn contains an 
italicized substring of characters.