Sharing Your Word Documents

You can directly share your Word files with colleagues. Each formatted citation is surrounded by field codes that contain reference information (see The Traveling Library), so colleagues may not even need access to your library to add citations or update the bibliography.

If you want to convert your document for use with a previous version of Word or a different word processor, you should Unformat Citations before saving in the different file format. Then, you may be able to reformat. The corresponding EndNote library (or libraries) must be available in order to format. See Unformatting Citations in Word.

To send a final, formatted document to someone, you may want to remove the field codes to save the formatted citations and bibliography as text. See Removing Field Codes.

Of course, if you just want to print a copy of the paper for someone, you do not need to do anything to your document other than print it!

If you are working collaboratively with a colleague and would like to share your library as well as your documents, see About Shared Libraries and Working on Different Computers with Word.