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By pressing F9 or using menu Tools > Update > Fields, the references are correctly updated.
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Created bug report: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118459
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(NOTE: I’m running LibreOffice v5.4.6.2, but also tested in LO 6.0.4.2.)
I have noticed that cross references to footnotes are not updated when I insert a new footnote with a lower number. Let me explain this scenario.
I start with a document with three lines:
This is the first line
This is the second line
This is the third line
Then I do these steps:
- I insert a footnote on the second line, with text “Footnote A”
- I insert a cross-reference to that footnote on the third line and format the number as superscript.
After this, I have the following text (NOTE: I use the caret ^ to depict a superscript)
This is the first line
This is the second line ^1
This is the third line ^1
And at the bottom of the page, I have this footnote:
1 Footnote A
Good, so far. Now I want to put a footnote on the first line, with text “Footnote B”. Then, I get:
This is the first line ^1
This is the second line ^2
This is the third line ^1
As you can see, the third line’s cross reference is not updated. At the bottom of the page I have the expected footnotes:
1 Footnote B
2 Footnote A
Why isn’t the cross reference on the third line updated?
Thank you