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Adding comments on footnotes
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
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Re: Adding comments on footnotes
Posted by Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>.
At 15:41 19/02/2014 +0000, Gordon Snow 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?
I think you've discovered a bug in Microsoft Word! It seems that it
is not possible to attach a comment to footnote text in Word, so
there is presumably no way to save such a comment in a .doc
file. Whatever you managed to do in OpenOffice, the comment would
not reappear when you reopened the .doc file.
Moral: always use the application's native format - here
.odt. Distribute finished documents as .pdf. If your correspondents
insist on .doc files, they and you are limited by what can be saved
in this format.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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Re: Adding comments on footnotes
Posted by Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>.
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:41:27 -0000
"Lumi" <lu...@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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Re: Adding comments on footnotes
Posted by M Henri Day <mh...@gmail.com>.
2014-02-19 18:08 GMT+01:00 Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>:
> At 15:41 19/02/2014 +0000, Gordon Snow 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?
>>
>
> I think you've discovered a bug in Microsoft Word! It seems that it is
> not possible to attach a comment to footnote text in Word, so there is
> presumably no way to save such a comment in a .doc file. Whatever you
> managed to do in OpenOffice, the comment would not reappear when you
> reopened the .doc file.
>
> Moral: always use the application's native format - here .odt. Distribute
> finished documents as .pdf. If your correspondents insist on .doc files,
> they and you are limited by what can be saved in this format.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
A modest proposal : if one wishes to comment on a footnote, say number 4
in a .doc file, comment upon it after the superscript 4 (or whatever form
of notation is used in the document in question) in the *main text*, which
will allow the comment to be presented to the intended reader....
Henri
Re: Adding comments on footnotes
Posted by Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <or...@googlemail.com>.
Hi,
On 19.02.2014 18:08, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 15:41 19/02/2014 +0000, Gordon Snow 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?
>
> I think you've discovered a bug in Microsoft Word! It seems that it is
> not possible to attach a comment to footnote text in Word, so there is
> presumably no way to save such a comment in a .doc file. Whatever you
> managed to do in OpenOffice, the comment would not reappear when you
> reopened the .doc file.
>
I can confirm this.
No comments/annotations can be added to footnote's content in Microsoft
Word 2003 or Microsoft Word 2013.
Best regards, Oliver.
> Moral: always use the application's native format - here .odt.
> Distribute finished documents as .pdf. If your correspondents insist on
> .doc files, they and you are limited by what can be saved in this format.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
>
>
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