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# Footnote Settings

Specifies the formatting for footnotes.

To access this command...

Choose Tools - Footnote/Endnote Settings - Footnotes tab

To set additional option for footnotes, choose Format - Page Style, and then click the Footnote tab.

## AutoNumbering

### Numbering

Select the numbering scheme that you want to use.

Selection | Description
--- | ---
1, 2, 3 | Arabic numerals
A, B, C | Alphabetical numbering with uppercase letters A–Z After item 26, numbering continues AA, AB, AC, ...
a, b, c | Alphabetical numbering with lowercase letters a–z After item 26, numbering continues aa, ab, ac, ...
I, II, III | Roman numerals (upper case)
i, ii, iii | Roman numerals (lower case)
A,... AA,... AAA,... | Alphabetical numbering with uppercase letters A–Z After item 26, numbering continues AA, BB, CC, ...
a,... aa,... aaa,... | Alphabetical numbering with lowercase letters a–z After item 26, numbering continues aa, bb, cc, ...

### Counting

Select the numbering option for the footnotes.

Option | Meaning
--- | ---
Per page | Restarts the numbering of footnotes at the top of each page. This option is only available if the End of page check box is selected in the Position area.
Per chapter | Restarts the numbering of footnotes at the beginning of each chapter.
Per document | Numbers the footnotes in the document sequentially.

### Before

Enter the text that you want to display in front of the footnote number in the note text. For example, type "To " to display "To 1".

### After

Enter the text that you want to display after the footnote number in the note text. For example, type ")" to display "1)".

Footnote numbers are left aligned by default in the footnote area. For right aligned footnote numbers first edit the paragraph style Footnote. Press Command+T F11 to open Styles dialog and select Footnote from the list of paragraph styles. Open the local menu with right click and choose Modify. Go to the Indents & Spacing tab page and set indent to 0 before and after the paragraph, including the first line. On Tabs tab page create a tab of right type at 12pt and a tab of left type at 14pt. Then in Footnotes/Endnotes Settings dialog enter \t into the Before and After edit boxes.

### Start at

Enter the number for the first footnote in the document. This option is only available if you selected "Per Document" in the Counting box.

### Position

### End of page

Displays footnotes at the bottom of the page.

### End of document

Displays footnotes at the end of the document as endnotes.

## Text style

To ensure a uniform appearance for the footnotes in your document, assign a paragraph style to the footnote text, and assign character styles to the footnote anchor number and the number in the footnote area.

### Paragraph

Select the paragraph style for the footnote text. Only special styles can be selected.

### Page

Select the page style that you want to use for footnotes.

This option is only available if the End of Document check box is selected in the Position area.

### Anchor in text

Select the character style that you want to use for footnote anchors in the text area of your document.

### Anchor in footnote

Select the character style that you want to use for the footnote numbers in the footnote area.

## Continuation notice

### End of Footnote

Enter the text that you want to display when the footnotes are continued on the next page, for example, "Continued on Page ". LibreOfficeDev Writer automatically inserts the number of the following page.

### Start of next page

Enter the text that you want to display on the page where the footnotes are continued, for example, "Continued from Page ". LibreOfficeDev Writer automatically inserts the number of the previous page.

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