Anyway to check for consistency?

Dear Teresa

I think the Author term list should help you in this. Check
in the help
for full details. It's not difficult though. It won't show
the
references*, but it will show the variations in how you've
recorded the
names. You can print this out and go through it over a
coffee somewhere
nice away from your computer! You can then search for those
with the
non-standard version you want to remove and replace them.

In future it's probably best to always put in the full
names with the
Last name/surname  first followed by a comma to reduce this
problem. If
you're importing, you'd need to clean up either as you go
or at least
regularly to avoid it building up again.

* You could create a report listing the authors and their
works, but I
don't think it will help you in your predicament.

Hope this helps,

Duncan

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--On 14 August 2006 14:44 -0400 t_a_hallammsn.com]
wrote:

> As I become to come to the end of writing my
dissertation proposal, I 
> am finding some inconsistencies in my author names,
such as adding an 
> extra space between the initials in their names, or
using initials 
> instead of first names, which causes EndNote to
recognize the 
> citations as belonging to different authors so instead
of the citation
looking like:
> (Smith, 1995, 2005), it looks like, (Smith,1995; Smith,
L., 2005).  Is

> there some way I can get EndNote to list the first part
of the 
> author's names AS IT IS STORED?  It doesn't help to
look at the 
> citation in the window below because it will not show
the stored 
> version.  Are there any other tricks I can use to help?
 Some of my 
> authors have 10 articles or are second or third
authors, and I need to

> make sure the names are consistent throughout the
database and with 
> over 2000 entries it is a challenge.
>
>
>
> Teresa A. Hallam
>
> t_a_hallammsn.com
>
> University of Akron
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