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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 17:05:09 +0000
From: Rory O'Farrell <ofarrwrk@iol.ie>
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Cc: "Lumi" <lumi@lumilinna.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Adding comments on footnotes
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On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:41:27 -0000
"Lumi" <lumi@lumilinna.co.uk> wrote:

> I am using Open Office 4.0.1 to edit a document loaded as a Microsoft Word (.doc file) .
> 
> Adding marginal comments using Ctrl/Alt/C in the main text is straightforward. Adding comments on a footnote is not. The RH slide bar to move through text simply jumps repeatedly across the existing screen text.
> 
> As a temporary measure, I have added an explanatory comment attached to the footnote number in the main text, referring to the difficulty and listing the changes I wanted made to the footnote itself. Is there a neater way of doing this? Or have I uncovered a genuine bug in the program?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Gordon Snow


The MS Office filters have been reverse engineered, so some anomalies are to be expected. I've tried commenting a footnote: saved as .odt, this reloads correctly. Saved as .doc (Word 97), the comment is lost on reload.


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Rory O'Farrell <ofarrwrk@iol.ie>

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