If you have backup copies of your master and subdocuments, click Continue to remove field codes. Otherwise, click Cancel and make copies before you attempt to remove field codes.
Caution: When you are working with master and subdocuments in Word, the Remove Field Codes command strips codes from the original documents. You should always manually save copies of the master and subdocuments first, and then remove codes from the copies.
Removing field codes means deleting Word’s Cite While You Write field codes and saving the formatted citations and bibliography as text. This removes only the Cite While You Write field codes, and not all other Word field codes.
If your document includes figures inserted from EndNote references, removing field codes replaces the link to each graphic and displays the graphic as though you had used the Copy and Paste commands.
Cite While You Write cannot reformat or unformat your paper once field codes are removed.
For more information about what happens when you remove field codes, see Removing Field Codes.