EndNote: "All" means "some"

EndNote has a weird concept of what the word all means. When searching pubmed, you have an option of narrowing your search to specific fields, like year, author, PMID, etc. Or, you can select "All Fields" and assume that EndNote will search through all listed fields. You know, as the word all would have you believe.



If you do this with a PMID number, however, you learn that the folks at Thomson Reuters were consulting a different dictionary than the rest of us when they were creating the bloated monster that is EndNote.



Weird, right? I happen to know that this is an actual PMID. If you tickle EndNote a bit, it'll laugh (at you) and admit that it, too, knows that this is an actual PMID, you silly goose.

How do you tickle EndNote to admit this? Simple, select PMID. It's right there: the second line below All Fields:



Cute, right?