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My citations have all shifted up one position in my document. How can I fix this? |
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Answer:
This can happen if you have two citations or groups of consecutive citations in a document that have already been formatted, and you remove the text between the citations or groups of citations to join them together.
Unfortunately, once this has happened to your document, we don't have a way to fully resolve the problem.
To avoid this problem in the future, be sure to revert the citations before trying to group them together.
Partial Workaround: Once a document is unformatted, if the citations are still shifted in a portion,
you can use the following steps to shift the affected the citations back:
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Use this FAQ to clean up the field codes, make sure that the Temp Citation Delimiters are set to {}
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Copy just the part of the document where the citations have shifted, so if the first 20 citations are fine,
and 21 is where the shifting starts, copy 21 to the end of the document.
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Download this word document here. Paste the text into this file.
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In Word 2007, Go to the View tab, choose "Macros" and select "View Macros." Select "CorrectShfted" and choose "Run."
In all other versions of Word, Go to “Tools > Macros and choose "Macros" from the sumbenu. Select "CorrectShfted" and choose "Run."
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One this is run, the first citation will be replaced with "***REINSERT THIS CITATION***" and you should reinsert that citation.
Note the last citation in the document will aso be lost, and should be reinserted as well.
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Once the unformatted portion of this documnet is fixed. Replace the copied text from the original document with the corrected text
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