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How to delete all in-text citations in Word?

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If you are trying to troubleshoot the Format citations and bibliography button not formatting your newly added citation, we would recommend you try: 

  • First, please copy the document to a new one
  • Now delete all your bibliography
  • Click Format citations and bibliography again to re-generate all the references that is on your document

However, if this does still not work and you wish to remove all in-text citation as an escalated step, please see the instruction below to bulk delete your in-text citation.

How to remove in-text citation

  1. Copy your original document to a NEW document
  2. Open your NEW document and go to Editing > Find > Advanced (Windows) or  Edit > Find > Advanced Find & Replace (Mac)
  3. A Find & Replace window will appear
  4. Go to the Replace tab and under More (Windows) or Search (Mac), please select Use wildcard
  5. Put \(*\) in Find and leave the Replace empty
  6. Click Replace All
  7. This will now remove all the in-text citations

How to remove the spacing between the deleted in-text citation and the full stop

  1. Open the basic Find & Replace window using shortcut Ctrl + H (Windows) or Command + Shift + H (Mac)
  2. Put an empty space and a full stop in the search box
 .
  1. Replace All with a full stop 
.
  1. This will remove all the spacing between deleted in-text citation and the full stop

 

 

 

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