Find and Replace

Use the Find and Replace command to find text in your references and replace it with other text. Changes can be restricted to a particular field in your references. You can also apply:

Match Case and Match Words restrictions
Style changes that include bold, italics, underline, plain text, superscript, subscript, or symbol font

Caution: The Undo command from the Edit menu cannot undo the results of the Find and Replace command. Make sure you have a backup before making changes. See Saving a Compressed Copy of a Library and Saving a Copy of a Library for information on making a backup of your library.

The Find and Replace command will only be applied to the references showing in the current Reference List. Use the following options to control which references are showing:

Selecting the All References group will show all the references in the library and the change will be applied to any that match the Find and Replace criteria.
Selecting a group will limit Find and Replace to only the references in that group.
Performing a search in advance of Find and Replace will bring up a set of search results in the Reference List, allowing you to limit Find and Replace to the showing results. You can find detailed information on searching EndNote libraries in Searching EndNote References.
If you wish to confine Find and Replace to a specific set of references that none of the methods above will provide, create a custom group and put all the references you want to use with Find and Replace in that group, then select that group to show only those references. You can find information on creating custom groups in Creating a Custom Group.

To use Find and Replace to replace text in your references:

After using one of the options above to limit the references in the Reference List to show only those you want to change, select Find and Replace from the Library menu.
From the Select a Field list, select the field to be searched.
In the Find text box, type the text you wish to change. To enter a Carriage Return or Tab in the text box, use the Insert Special button.
Change the Match Case or Match Words settings, if necessary.

By default, the Match Words option is always selected. If you change this setting, pay close attention to whether or not the term you are changing could appear as part of another word or in a different context depending on the capitalization.
In the Replace with text box, type the text that should replace the original text. To enter a Carriage Return or Tab in the text box, use the Insert Special button.

Select the Retain Capitalization option to maintain the same capitalization as the text being replaced.

Retain Capitalization should be selected if replacing a term that might appear with different capitalization. For example, any word may have its first letter capitalized if it is the first word in a title, but may also appear in all lowercase in other places. Do not select Retain Capitalization if you are replacing an acronym with its unabbreviated version.

Click the Change button to search the selected references for the specified text and replace it with the new text. Before replacing any text, EndNote has you verify the changes.

Click OK if all of those items in the dialog are correct. EndNote replaces the text and displays the number of references that were changed.