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EndNote “COM Exception”

Posted by Tom on June 10th, 2009

I’m working in a research paper we hope to get submitted to an Information Systems conference. I was going through the references when EndNote X2 stopped working together with Word 2008. Every attempt to change a citation resulted in the error “COM Exception: Command not found.” (I’m running OS X 10.5)

A quick Google showed a history of COM Exceptions and EndNote. The most helpful was an old blog post comment suggesting I delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.ThompsonEndnote.plist.

I closed both applications, deleted the file, and voilà, no more problems.

For the record, I don’t like EndNote. I get to use it because that’s what our advisor wants. Before this paper, I’d been using Sente, a Mac-only app that is actually usable and intuitive.

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6 Responses to “EndNote “COM Exception””

This fixed my problem! Thanks so much for posting!

Left by Mary on August 22nd, 2009

Thanks for posting this–it solved the problem I was having with Endnote as well.

Left by Jude on November 4th, 2009

I had the same problem, tech support said that the following things can also cause it:

- Auto text wrapping inside a table
- corrupted comment (erase comment tags to fix)

Left by CMO on March 8th, 2011

I went to the Endnote website, where they said that Tables with text wraping can cause this problem. I went to Table>table properties>text wrapping and clicked None. Problem solved.

Left by Jay Solnick on March 25th, 2011

I had the same problem and i deleted the .plist file and it was fine after that. thanks for the post.

Left by MNK on May 9th, 2011

this fixed it! thank you so much!

Left by dave on May 8th, 2012

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