Office 2004 11.1.1 vs. EndNote (#2)

Yesterday we noted a conflict between EndNote -- a bibliography tool -- and the Microsoft Office 11.1.1 update. This problem has appeared with previous updates to Microsoft's Office suite, including several revisions of Office v.X.

MacFixIt reader Luke Masson writes:

"I had a problem after the Office 11.1 update but different from your other user who said he got the spinning beach ball. What broke in my setup was the Endnote toolbar. It simply disappeared. Endnote still worked but I had to access it from the tool menu in Word. Although the Endnote toolbar was selected in toolbar, it was still absent (even after deselecting and reselecting)."

Pierre Crouch adds "I'm having something similar with EndNote. After the Microsoft update, I'm seeing slower performance as well as an occasional endless spinning beach ball when I try to 'format bibliography' with Endnote. The endless beach ball has also occurred when a citation in the paper is selected and I try to click somewhere else in the document. Haven?t figured out a solution yet."

Meanwhile, at least one reader reports that deleting the EndNote .plist file (located in ~/Library/Preferences/) resolves issues introduced during the Office 2004 11.1.1 update process.

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