Safely deleting a reference (without affecting references).

I am currently working on a project (thesis) with many references, and as I wrote I sometimes entered the same reference twice, and sometimes I used cross references (as I needed to cite the same source at multiple places).

Now is the time to clean all of that up, and I'm afraid I will encounter some kind of problem. Since I have the same reference entered multiple times, I was going to do a search (ctrl F) of each reference, then, when I find duplicates, assign them a cross reference of the first one and delete them (and making sure that the original reference is on top of the others).

Since some of these references are crossed, if I delete a duplicate, if there was any cross reference referring to it, I'm going to lose some information. My question is: I know how to find the original reference a cross reference is referring to (ctrl click), but is there a way to do the opposite (see if a reference is used in a cross reference)?

Thank you all in advance, this will be of great help!

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Last updated October 5, 2021 Views 63 Applies to: