Hi All! Thank you for the replies! When I say "footnotes," I am talking about the type used in academic writing. Endnotes also have the same problem... For a simple explanation of what footnotes and endnotes are, see: http://www.aresearchguide.com/7footnot.html
Let me be a little more specific about my problem . . . while I am writing, I use Zotero to insert footnotes containing citation information. Also, I add footnotes manually when I need to add a little extra information. These footnotes come up in a different font than I am using, and I also like to change the font size to be a little smaller. I can not select all the footnotes at once and change these things. I have to do each one manually, which adds up quickly when you consider there are 50-60 per chapter of my 8 chapter dissertation. And then there are other documents that I am working on too. I almost never have a piece of writing without footnotes. The next problem I have encountered is how footnotes and endnotes appear in .docx format; especially when I open them in Microsoft Word 2008 or 2011 for Mac. Unfortunately, no matter how much I'd like to use LibreOffice instead of Word, I have to submit my documents in .docx form to be read in Word. I have already done this once, and I had to re-insert every footnote in Word after transferring the document. Because of these two problems, at this point, LibreOffice is simply unusable for me - and probably for most academics and university students. It's a shame, because I really love it otherwise - especially its support for uncommon fonts (which I use a lot of). I can use N'Ko with LibreOffice, but not with Word 2011. (For more info on N'Ko, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%27Ko_script). While creating a macro may work, footnotes and endnotes are something that really should work automatically - especially for people who aren't good with computers, like me! :) And even if I do get that working, .docx files need to transfer seamlessly to Word 2011. Unfortunately, even if I switch to LibreOffice, the rest of my colleagues probably won't and so I need to be able to work with them without problems. I hope this explains everything! Thanks again! -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Help-with-formatting-footnotes-tp3145923p3152214.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
