Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 23253
can't mark all footnotes at once
Last modified: 2003-12-11 17:49:52 UTC
I wanted to resize all of my footnotes in the text document, but OO permits to mark only each footnote for itself. As I have quite a number of them, I wanted to mark all and than resize the font. Consequently I have to resize each footnote for itself, which is plenty of work.
There's no need to select all footnotes to change the font. The footnote symbol can be changed by modifying the character style "Footnote anchor" and the text in the footnote by modifying the paragraph style "Footnote". Anyway, the selection of multiple footnotes is possible. Hold down the Ctrl key while selecting text with the mouse.
I feel I should reopen this issue, because ... Imagine you have a text document of (i.e.) 100 pages and in average each single page has 2-3 footnotes ... Than I would need to mark each of the 200-300 footnotes one-by-one and finally set the font size. I expect to place the cursor into a footnote, select 'edit, select all' and have all footnotes in the document to be marked. That is the way it runs in MS Office. The text document is split into the text and the footnotes. Anyway a way should be found to mark all footnotes by quick way. Isn't it ?
Look at the footnote style. Mark all footnotes with Footnote style (set to Format > Default first, then Double click on Footnote style in the Stylist. By setting all footnotes to the same style, the only thing you need to do to change all the footnotes at once is to click on "Footnote" style and "Modify" and change it to what you want. If you need something unique for a particular footnote, make the change directly in the footnote and the change you make will stay with that footnote and that one, only.
set to invalid, due the comment of rblackeagle, this is the fastest and the easiest way to do this.
invalid -> closed