Start a search of an EndNote library (in my case, using a
MacBook
running Tiger) by hitting cmd-F . The default Search dialog
box will
have three search fields. You can enter search terms in
these three
fields by keying in term1 TAB term2 TAB term3. Hitting TAB
after
entering term 3 does nothing further (not visibly, anyway).
Using the Option button and the Add Field button, you can
add more
fields -- say three more fields, for example.
If you do this and type term1 TAB term2 TAB term3 TAB
term4 TAB
term5 TAB term6, you end up with terms 1, 2 and 3 in fields
1, 2 and 3;
you find "term4term5term6" conflated in field 4;
and nothing in fields 5
or 6.
If, following the typing of term4, you skip the TAB and
instead _click_
in field 5, term5 goes into field 5, and things go as
intended from then
on.
If someone wants to report this bug to Thomson (after maybe
reproducing
it), be my guest. I'm too busy -- or is it lazy -- to
report still
another Mac bug in EndNote.
[And by the way, while composing this note, I just toggled
from Eudora
to EndNote and opened the About EndNote dialog box to check
that it was
Thomson who's the EndNote vendor. I then toggled back to
Eudora -- and
the EndNote About box did NOT go away -- even after I
clicked in the now
visible Eudora window. I had to dismiss it manually.
I just checked with two other superior quality Mac
applications (Adobe
Acrobat and Safari): when I toggled from Eudora to them,
opened their
About boxes, and toggled back to Eudora, they closed their
About boxes.
Every other Mac application I can recall does similarly;
EndNote
doesn't.]
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