2014-02-19 18:08 GMT+01:00 Brian Barker <[email protected]>: > 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
