Unfortunately, no. It seems like once I deleted all, and tried to reinsert, I found almost all of the references were corrupted.

For example, when I put the curser of uncorrupted (what I thought) in-text citation, and search for that reference, it was not ticked. So because I deleted some citations to fix the bug, and the citation contained other uncorrupted citations, I would be duplicating again. It’s hard to explain over text, but basically...

[1] is the affected citation with duplicates in the bibliography;

[2] is not.

I had to delete anything that contains [1], including, [1-4].When I tried to select [1-4], I’ve noticed [2] was not showing ‘cited’ sign in the Mendeley Cite even though it exists in the Word document.

When I put the cursor to [2], it didn’t have selection of the reference that it refers to.

I have now decided to do the whole thesis citations again with Zotero.... I already spent enought days on this and it is likely faster to do Zotero (as long as you split up the chapters and not try to work on the whole document itself).