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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