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Using Bookends 13.0.4 and Word for Mac 16.9 i can no longer format a document using the "Scan document" addin
Bookends appears to go through the motions, but the reference placeholders are not replaced and no reference list is inserted.
Tried to restart word and bookends a couple of times with no effect.
Scanning RTFs from Bookends still works.
Kurt

Please see this FAQ

http://www.sonnysoftware.com/faq/faq.ht ... rting_a_ci

Jon
Sonny Software

I hit this yesterday and have been following up with Jon and the usual excellent support.

Reinstalling Word made no difference. Downgrading Bookends didn't either. So I suspect it is Word. Are you getting it through O365 also? They updated in the week.

I am "glad" it is someone else who suddenly got the same issue if you know what I mean.

Restarting the machine hasn't helped (I am on OSX10.11 BTW) and I need to schedule another restart after cache clean "just in case".

So, TL:DR. A "me too" but if you do get it working, share the secret The suggestions so far from Jon have not helped my particular case.

In the interim, you can paste in Word after it "fails" and you will get the information. It seems the AppleScript is not passing the final command to Word.

Me too. I guess it's because of the latest Word update?

Edit: I also followed the suggested steps from the FAQ with no positive results.

DarrenIngram wrote: In the interim, you can paste in Word after it "fails" and you will get the information. It seems the AppleScript is not passing the final command to Word.

This actually works - thank you so much for this interim solution!

That is covered in the FAQ linked above.

Everyone reading this thread should read it.

Jon
Sonny Software

For anyone who uses Alfred, here is a workflow which automates the "Paste as formatted text", which solved this current problem in Word 16.9 for me (the script was provided by Jon who, as always, responded to my support request within minutes of me asking!)
Just think ourselves lucky, Word 16.9 totally broke Endnote's CWYW!

Dear Iandol,
can you create an Alfred workflow for unscanning as well?

Rob

I've heard about Alfred in the past.

Does the provided script mean that if you have Alfred installed, the script would automatically run and know what to do, e.g. is it "install and forget"?

Does this script need the optional PowerPack?

Maybe I need time to play with it...

I am using BE 13.0.4 on a iMac running Sierra 10.13.2. Last Friday, BE failed to insert and generate a bibliography in a Word document. This morning I tried something different. After failing to format my document and while the whole text was still selected, I used Command-Z followed by Command-V. This time around, not only all the references were now inserted but a bibliography was generated.

That information is included in the FAQ references at the top of this thread.

Jon
Sonny Software

pharoah: added beunscan command. DarrenIngram: Alfred is a simple way to easily run a script, you call it up and enter a keyword, or bind a key and it run a script (or many other things). And yes, you need to buy a powerpack licence to use workflows...

Dear Iandol,
I thank you for the workflow, but it seems that unscanning still does not work. I looked into the script, but I could not figure out the problem. I see this part in the script:

tell application "Bookends"
ignoring application responses
activate
«event bepebepu»
end ignoring
delay 1
end tell


but it seems that event bepebepu is ignored. Any advice?

That is the code taken directly from Bookends applescript itself so it should work (it works for me, though I'm happy to press the icon so don't really use it). PM me if you want to follow up so we don't divert this thread...

@iandol,

i thank you for the information and the fact that works in your case. I was wondering however if you are using Word for Mac version 16.0.9.

And from now, I will keep the conversation between you and me.

Thanks.