I don’t know why, but every time I have end-of-page notes (footnote) in a document, the first footnote (especially) is created as a section. No matter how many times I delete it and save the document, the section reappears every time I open the document. What can we do about it? Thanks
Nothing. Unless you provide a sample document. While at it, mention OS name, LO version and save format.
Sample document? Necessary for analysis.
EDIT
Your document is a .docx, not a native format .odt. Conversion on load may play nasty tricks. The notion of section is completely different between both suites.
However, when I right-click on Section1 in the Navigator and Edit, I see that your section is write-protected (as is its englobing TextSection), which prevents it from being deleted. I can’t remove write-propect property. This probably comes from some specific setting in the original DOCX. Have you started your work in Word?
I also note that all your sections do not make sense (in Writer structure at least). And your document smells stone age technology (in fact mechanical typewriter era) because everything is direct formatted. Absolutely no style is applied. Though this can be understood for character and page styles because there are no such concepts in Word, you can’t be forgiven for not using paragraph styles at least. What is strange is that notes are automatically styled Footnote while they are Default Paragraph Style in your document.
IMHO, something is wrong in the document structure and conversion to internal format causes the persistence of the sections. Saving repeatedly to DOCX worsens things as these conversion cycles have cumulative effects.
If you intend to work with LO Writer, the best thing you can do (and probably the only thing you can do to fix your problem) is to create a new blank .odt file into which you’ll paste your text using Edit>Paste Special>Paste Unformatted Text to get rid of all DOCX-format directive. Notes will not be pasted; they must be handled individually. When this is done, apply styles on your paragraphs and words.
If you don’t know what styles are and what they are used for, read the Writer Guide to get an idea. A recommended reading is the excellent Bruce Byfield’s Designing with LO, available at the same link, which emphasises the use of styles and their benefits.
This is no solution to your question. Please, repost as a comment or transfer the attached document into your original question (contrary to forums, in this Question & Answers site, posts are editable). Then delete your non-answer. Only you as post owner can do it. Thanks.
Again this is no solution to your question. It should have gone in a comment under my own. Please delete this non-answer. Only you can do it. Thanks for abiding by site policy and etiquette.