For endnotes, see below.įor endnotes, the same explanations apply to a subset of the options. You have a huge amount of control over how the notes look and behave. change it to an endnote or change the character used, right-click on the number in the text and choose Footnote/Endnote. To go back and change the attributes of a footnote, i.e. YOU CAN CHANGE THIS IN SETUP UNDER TOOLS > FOOTNOTES AND ENDNOTES.Īnd the space to type the endnote text appears at the end of the document. YOU CAN HAVE ENDNOTE 1 AND FOOTNOTE 1 IN THE SAME DOCUMENT. NOTE THAT END NOTES AND FOOTNOTES ARE NOT CONSECUTIVE. The number (or character) appears in the text. Instead of the text going to the foot of the page, it goes to the end of the document. NOTE that when you select a character there is no numbering. Turning this kind of data into a table involves highlighting all of the parts with the. You'll see the character in the text, and with the other footnotes at the bottom of the page. Then click OK again in the Insert Footnote/Endnote window. However, keep to the standard fonts, don't switch to Dingbats, since then the character won't show correctly in the document itself. You can choose a special character instead just select Special Character and click the little. Now, let's say you want something other than plain old numbers. Also there's less text on the page from the normal body flow since you need more space for the footnotes.įootnotes (or endnotes) Using Special Characters Instead of Sequential Numbering Now, what happens when you insert another footnote? Exactly what you might expect.Īnd you see the new number in the text and at the bottom, with the renumbering done automatically. Type the footnote itself at the bottom of the page. You'll see the number in the text, and a number at the bottom of the page. To insert an automatically numbering footnote, just leave the defaults as is. In this season of pulpy beach reads, then, let's make a 180 and talk geeky, intense, length footnotes.Ĭlick where you want the number to appear, in the text. With them you can now add sources for specific lines at the bottom of the page.I realized a few weeks ago that I have rarely if ever written or blogged about footnotes. Select the Text area and Footnote area drop-down lists to choose alternative numbers or symbols that occurs in the main text and at the start of the footnote.įootnotes give you a good way to add sources to documents. There you can select alternative numbering formats by clicking the Numbering drop-down list. That will open the window shown in shot below. Now you can enter some text for the footnote.įor further footnote options, click Tools > Footnotes/Endnotes.
Click the small number beside the selected text to jump to its footnote at the bottom of page. That will then add the footer to the bottom of the page as below. Selecting Automatic will add the number format to the footnote selected on the Footnotes/Endnotes Settings page. If you select Character, you’ll need to enter it in the text box.
Then you can select either Automatic or Character radio buttons. Select the Footnote radio button on that window.
Then click Insert and select Footnote/Endnote to open the window in the shot below. Select some text in the document to add a footnote reference to. This is how you can add footnotes to OpenOffice documents.įirst, open a OpenOffice text document to add the footnotes to. With them you can add additional numbered references to the bottom of the page for content in the document. Footnotes are something you can add at the bottom of OpenOffice Writer document pages.