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From reading the posts herein, I gather than there are legal researchers using Bookends. Are there formats available for cases/opinions and maybe statutes? I am just getting into this, and would appreciate hearing how other legal researchers are using Bookends. I have been using BE for many years fo...

Jon and Danzac,
Thanks for these tips and info. I think I'll spend tomorrow consolidating my separate databases into 1!
Thanks for such a great and helpful product, Jon.

I have been using different databases in BE for each research/writing project. For those of you who are using only one database: any speed issues with large databases? How many items in your database? I use the Keywords field to keep the subcategories titles for each project. Then I make a Smart Gro...

For me, this would be a great feature as well. In my field (biblical literature) this is proper. For example: 54. See McDowell, Jewish Women and Prayer , 233; idem, Introduction to the Pseudepigrapha , 21-34. As it is, I have to go through the Mellel document and change them manually. If I ever resc...

danzec and John, I think I am following your instructions, but it seems to change nothing. I have changed the punctuation options under the "cited Pages" section of the "Bib & Citation options" in the "Formats Manager..." menu. http://idisk.mac.com/endymion1-Public/...

I have tried this, leaving the fields "Before" and "After" under Cited Pages blank. I did it for the formats SBL Bib, SBL footnotes, and SBL in-text. I have even reinstalled the SBL formats, and quite BE and Mellel. I still have periods showing up at the end of my citations like ...

I am using Danny Zacharias' excellent SBL formats. I know that pages ranges and punctuation can be included in the citations, but my footnotes often have multiple citations and comments between. I would like to simply remove all automatic punctuation, but I can't seem to do it. Can someone tell me h...

I started trying out BookEnds a numberof months ago, then got distracted with a heavy teaching and travelling load. Now I am back to researching and writing, and I am having some problems getting my information into BookEnds. I do a search through my school's web browser access the FirstSearch ATLA ...