[libreoffice-users] Re: Help with formatting footnotes...

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! 

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