in the example attached: the footnotes 3 and 4 and 5 have spacing above theme while it does not exist in the settings
why is this happening? and how to remove that extra spacing?
example1.odt (35.6 KB)
Once again, direct formatting played nasty tricks on your back. But this DF is not reported by the Style Inspector (the Style Inspector is still imperfect and somehow experimental). I suppose note text is not fully parsed because notes are stored aside the main flow until they are rendered.
I remind you the golden rule when working on elaborate documents: avoid direct formatting. Some occurrences are badly detected if at all. Direct formatting is a speedway to formatting nightmare.
@ajlittoz warned you of direct formatting.
The leading spaces in some of your lines (footnotes) are formatted in 18 pt but not in regular 13 pt (footnote paragraph style).
Select the single space(s) or the entire footnote and hit shortcut CTRL+M to diminish the space to 13 pt.
Further: Where do the spaces come from? Copy/paste? If yes, so insert the clipboard content basically as unformattet text (Paste Special - menu Edit). - Cheers
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when i select the entire footnote and click: ctrl+M nothing happens.
i see that space and i could not select it
it comes from microsoft word file: that file was originally created by MSOffice and i copied its content to odt new file.
but when i choose the text and paste without formatting: it does not copy the footnotes.
and if i select every footnotes separately and copy/paste it unformatted it be very tired task when i have lot of footnotes.
what do you advice me?
edit: i have manged to select that space and remove its formatting and the probleme resolved
yes, I’m working with your advice in any new writing, but i have a several files that were written in MS Office and i could not past the content unformatted to new documents because it does not copy the footnotes.
If you search for all footnotes (footnote style) you can entirely mark every footnote in your document. Leave the FIND&REPLACE tool (footnotes are still marked) and hit shortcut CTRL+M to delete manual formatting. In this case more than one footnote will lose the wrongly formatted font size characters. See attached screenshot. - HTH
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very helpful and important. i did not pay attention to that before. thank you.
and as i see: this option does not support searching for list styles?