Open OPEN OFFICE WRITER - NOT openoffice org and click on FORMAT and then click on PAGE and you will get a dialog box which will answer your question about footnotes and many other things.
K -----Original Message----- >From: Vlastimil Pis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sep 20, 2008 10:45 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [users] Re: How to Select All Footnotes in Writer? > >It has been a couple of month since you posted, but since it seems >to be persistent problem of many users, here are a few ideas/solutions. > >Unfortunately, to my knowledge there is not yet the possibility to >select all footnotes at once (via Shift key or sim.) > >Possible workarounds depend on the goal you want to accomplish. >There are 2 main reasons to select all Footnotes: > >1.)To change their proprieties (Font, Style etc.) >2.)To export them, possibly to create a bibliography. > >*Warning, make backup of your original document, before performing >changes you are not familiar with. > >1.)Is fairly easy to accomplish, by changing the global properties of >the style your Footnotes have (by default it should be Style: Footnote). > >No need to expressly select all the Footnotes for that. >Type F11, or Format > Styles and Formatting. >Right click your style (Footnote). The changes in the properties will >have a global effect. >In case your footnotes do not have a common Style, look at section a) >and especially aa) of the second solution. > >2.)For Footnotes export there are 2 workarounds I can think of: > >a.)Select all Footnotes >To actually select all Footnotes at once, the Find and Replace >Dialog offers you an ellegant workaround(Ctrl-F). Expand the 'More >Options' Menu in the dialog and check the Search for Styles. >Afterwards select the style(Footnote) you are looking for in 'Search >for'. >With 'Find All', OO Writer selects all instances of the Text, >having the specified Style. > >By Copy and Pasting the highlighted text you can extract them all at >once, with the obvious loss of new paragraphs. >(they will form a continous text block, >but they will keep their respective Formatting) > >You can however, clear out the new lines issue and obtain an impacable >list in a matter of seconds, by using the power of REGEXP :). >(description in aa.) at the bottom - refer to this part also in case >your Footnotes don't have a common Style.) > >b.)Export the document & retrieve the footnotes >The basic idea is to 'Save as' the document containing the footnotes, >in some other format (f.e. txt) and then retrieve them with a simple >text editor, >and copy and paste them back into the Open Office document. > >Before doing it, you should group all your footnotes at the end of the >document. >Tools > Footnotes... and change the 'Position' of the >Footnotes from 'End of page' to 'End of document'. >It looks already perfect, >unfortunately you still can't select all of them. > >Therefore 'Save as' the document. Often, the smart choice to do this >is to save to .html and not to .txt, >since the .html (sim. to the .rtf) keeps font formatting such as Italics >etc. >The .html file can be opened with any web browser and copy pasted >back into your original document, after which you can select all of your >footnotes, as any simple text. > >This is probably the default way you want to export your footnotes, >and use the first method(a) only if the result obtained with (b) is for >some >reason not satisfying. > > >aa.)Insert lines/delimiters with Regexp >I suggest that you skimm over my the following examples and then get >back and spend 15 minutes reading the following references. >http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Regular_Expressions_in_Writer >or >http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Regular.html#uh-7 >*I'm sure you don't want to be forced to learn programming to use >Office, >but spend 15 minutes reading, to get an introductory idea about Regexp >and >you will be rewarded with a lifetime of luxury and professionalism in >text searching. > >Highlight your new list that you copy&pasted somewhere. >Open Edit > Find and Replace Dialog, >Expand the More Options and check 'Current Selection Only' >and 'Regular Expressions'. >Carefully look at your footnotes and try to identify some sort of >pattern in the Text, that identifies the beginning of a Footnote. > >To give you an Example: >(I use the following Format to quote my sources: SURNAME, Name: >Title..., Year.) >Therefore I can find the beginning of a Footnote by looking for a >pattern ".SURNAME" which equals "(a dot)(Capital letter)(more Capital >letters)" >which equals to the Regexp "\.[A-Z][A-Z]" > >Type the needed Regexp into the 'Search for' field and 'Find All' should >highlight all the instances. >In the 'Replace with' box you can enter the string you want the >highlighted text to be changed for. >The trick is to manage to insert a new paragraph between two characters >(i.e. an addition, not a replacement). >To perform this in my case, after highlighting the above mentioned parts >in the text, you would check again 'Current Selection only' and 'Search >for' "\." >which is 'Replaced all' with the expression ".\n" (replacing all the >dots, in the previous selection, for a dot AND a new paragraph) > >The example is meant to give you an idea on how the proceed. The actuall >possibilities of Regexp are limited only by your imagination. >(and by the fact that Writer does not support Regexp in the 'Replace >with' >field) >If the Footnotes show the slightest sign of regularity, there is a way >to >exploit it with Regexp and save yourself some work. > >By using the same principle u can extract your footnotes independently >of their Style, i.e identifying them with a Regexp. > >Footnotes like: "This is a very interesting source. ><www.openoffice.org>" > >Can be summarized as >"(Capital letter)(possibly more letters)(dot)(<)(letters)(>)" >(Ideally your Regexp identifies all of your needed expressions, but not >any other expressions.) > >Therefore by 'Searching for all' "^[A-Z]\.<.*>$" in 'Find and replace' >would be a good beginning how to highlight all of these terms at once. > >Vlastimil Pis KE --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
