Caution! We strongly recommend that you click Yes to save a copy of your document before stripping field codes!
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.
Because Cite While You Write cannot reformat or unformat your paper once field codes are removed, the Remove Field Codes command makes a copy of your document without codes.
If you are working with master and subdocuments in Word, the Remove Field Codes command warns that it will strip codes from the original documents. You should first manually save copies of the master and subdocuments, and then remove codes from the copies.
For more information about what happens when you remove field codes, see Removing Field Codes.