Bug 88709

For me not reproducible with LO 4.3.5.2, Win 8.1.
Did you the same steps as I?  Which operating are you using?

Steps Done:
1. Open WRITER
2. Write two lines of text
3. Insert a footnote to line 1 (put the cursor there and go to INSERT -> FOOTNOTE/ENDNOTE, select CHARACTER in the NUMBERING section and select a character and press OK)
4. Select the superscripted footnote character and copy it with CTRL+C
5. Go to the second line and press CTRL+V to insert the copied footnote

Result: The footnote is copied as expected.

Darius and Andy:

I have been able to reproduce this bug using the steps that Andy described. Each time I paste the footnote, copied from the first line, it made a duplicate of the actual footnote. My documented ended up looking like (the numbers on the end are superscript:

Line 1 of Text1
Line 2 of Text1
Line 3 of Text1

Line 4 of Text2
Line 5 of Text2



_________________
1 Foot Note
1 Foot Note
1 Foot Note
2 Foot Note 2
2 Foot Note 2


I performed 4.3.5.2 OS X 10.10.1. I was also able to reproduce this on 3.3.0 so it's probably been around for some time. I think we can move this to 'NEW' but since Andy didn't see it, I'll wait to see if anyone else can reproduce this.

I confirmed this following Andy's steps but with one change:

1. Open WRITER
2. Write two lines of text
3. Insert a footnote to line 1 (put the cursor there and go to INSERT -> FOOTNOTE/ENDNOTE, select CHARACTER in the NUMBERING section and select a character and press OK)

-Actually type some content into the inserted footnote (in the bottom of the page)

4. Select the superscripted footnote character and copy it with CTRL+C
5. Go to the second line and press CTRL+V to insert the copied footnote

Seems like what the user wants is to be able to reference that footnote again elsewhere without it pasting a new footnote entry (with the exact same content). So you could have ten different sentences referencing the same footnote.

This is an enhancement request, marking as such and updating title.

Darius - if you know of documentation that says it should behave differently (or if it behaved differently in the past) please leave a comment saying as much.

LibreOffice 4.4 rc1
Ubuntu 14.04 x64

MSO 2010 in W7 has the same behavior

I would like to add that I was able to get the behavior that Darius was probably expecting by changing to superscript at the end of a sentence and select the duplicate foot note through the cross-reference dialog box.

Sorry for the noise but requesting UX to let us know how this should behave. Apparently using cross-references in a certain way allows you to achieve the desired behavior

Some time ago I faced the problem as well and solved it with fake footnotes. But cross-referencing is in fact the best solution. When pasting a footnote you could internally insert the reference and superscript the text. Makes sense for usability POV because the normal incrementing is not broken in this way.
But in my 4.3 installation this reference is not updated if I add another footnote before the referenced (e.g."He heard quiet steps1 behind him2. That didn't bode1 well." The last 1 is a (working) link to footnote 2). Update fields (F9) does not help, page preview is the same.
And when I remove the footnote its reference needs to be cleared. Otherwise I get an "Error: Reference source not found". So putting all together I would say we need a new type of reference (or special treatment for refs to footnotes).