Multiple references to footnote?

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#1

HiI have a document in writer in whicj itvwould be helpful to refer to the same footnote from different parts of the text (to avoid multiple copies of the footnote) but i cant seem to find how to do it. Is it even possible?Lo 6.0.7.3Ubuntu 0.18.04.8ThanksGary

#2

Hi Gary,

I have a document in writer in which it would be helpful to refer
to the same footnote from different parts of the text (to avoid
multiple copies of the footnote) but i cant seem to find how to do
it. Is it even possible?

Don't think it would be possible, because you could also click on the
footnote and get a reference back to the origin of this note. And this
will only work with different footnotes for every reference.

Regards

Robert

#3

Hi Gary,

HiI have a document in writer in whicj itvwould be helpful to refer to the same footnote from different parts of the text (to avoid multiple copies of the footnote) but i cant seem to find how to do it. Is it even possible?Lo 6.0.7.3Ubuntu 0.18.04.8ThanksGary

a link from document to footnote is no problem. Set cursor where the number of the footnote should appear. Go to menu Insert > Cross-Reference. In section 'Type' choose 'Footnotes'. Then select the footnote in section 'Selection'. Then choose 'Reference' in section 'Insert reference to'. Click 'Insert' and 'Close'.

The reference is inserted as normal text. To give it the same appearance than the others, mark it, then open the character styles in the side bar and double-click the style 'Footnote Anchor' to assign it.

The link from footnote to text can of cause only go that place, where the footnote was originally inserted.

Kind regards
Regina

#4

This seems to me to be a use of ibid.

#5

Maybe.

"Ibid." is short for "ibidem", which is Latin for "in the same place" - or "there again". So that works perfectly well if the footnote is a citation, but not if it is some elaboration or explanation of the footnoted text. It doesn't mean "ditto".

Brian Barker