Comment to the team re Footnotes

[Brian_Ido]

The new version of Libre Office, from what I can see in this forum, is incapable of using an asterisk for footnotes unless one downloads a separate app and uses Linux Libertine as a font.

This is ridiculous. I don’t know what’s considered “old fashioned” about footnotes with asterisks, but it is INANE, when one has ONE footnote in a document, to use a number! Using a number “1” implies there will be at least a second footnote somewhere.

I hope to God you people restore the ability to use any character one wants. I’ve been using Libre Office for ages and removing features is NOT a way to keep users. This is infuriating, and is exactly why I ran away from the never-stable Word.

[anon87010807]

Do all of us a favour and read https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Ask/Getting_Started before you post here.

[mikekaganski]

“The new”? Which “new” - is that 6.0, or 6.1, or unreleased 6.2, or the one that came with your distro (which might happen to be a long-unmaintained old actually)?

“from what I can see in this forum”? well - putting aside that this is not a forum - where exactly you see that (a link)? Otherwise, how do we know what you are talking about, and if you understood correctly?

And what was the situation you started to look for some info? what have you tried?

No answers…

[dajare]

Welcome to AskLibO - bit of a shame you started off with a rant.

To use an asterisk as your footnote “anchor” character:

• Position your cursor where you wish to “anchor” your footnote.
• From the menubar, click Insert > Footnote and Endnote > Footnote or Endnote…. You’ll get a pop-up like this:

• Fill in the “Character” box with your * character. Check “Footnote”. Click OK.
• You now have an asterisked footnote space which you can fill in:

Not so hard. Your blood-pressure better now? I live in hope!