like word, Can Writer have tables in footnotes? i can’t insert them there.!
Footnotes and tables have a history of not playing well together. Until quite recently (v4.1.5-v4.2.0) LO could not open a Word document containing a table in a footnote (fdo#71749) and would crash if any attempt was made to paste a table into a footnote (fdo#71892). The ODF v1.2 specification appears to support a table (<table:table> element) being placed in a footnote (<text:note-body> element), which makes sense as this is required for interoperability with OOXML, but it does not appear possible at present.
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fdo#76007 : FORMATTING: Table in Footnotes
has been created in 2014
and there it is still not possible to insert a table in a footnote.
Do you want to have a table in the “footnotes” or “footer area”?
In the “footnotes” it is not possible. Greyed out. To me this makes sense because the a footnote is a additional comment by the author of a document. If something like a table is required it should be used in the main text.
In the footer area just click into the footer area > Insert > table
Thanks Ros,
Mostly I have to work with RTL text, and sometimes we have poetry in footnotes, and 95% of RTL poetry is in full justified mode, with two verses in a row. In that case, i need two styles in one line, a different style for each verse. For this, i use tables, and i just can’t…