[Solved] Hiding footnotes

[tom14]

Hi,

I want to hide footnotes.

I have the same question as was asked here: viewtopic.php?t=14822

However, the action does not quite work. A few of my footnotes are hidden (~5/35), but the majority do not hide.

Any ideas what might be going on? Using 4.1.14

T

[floris v]

Moved to the Writer forum.

[floris v]

If possible (for privacy reasons), upload the file so that we can inspect it. My suspicion is that you somehow changed the styles for most of the footnotes, because the instructions in the linked topic are all about styles.

[JeJe]

If rather than hiding them, if a copy of the document with the footnotes removed was good enough, then running this simple macro on a copy of your document would do that without the hassle of that other thread's method.

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Sub RemoveFootnotes
with thiscomponent.footnotes
for i =  .count -1 to 0 step -1
.getbyindex(i).dispose
next
end with
End Sub

[tom14]

No changed or altered styles. Format, yes; not styles. Just plain weird why only a handful hid.

[JeJe]

Have you applied different styles to your Footnotes?

I've added a document with macros called by form buttons in the other thread to do the hiding or showing of footnotes as per their method.

[Zizi64]

No changed or altered styles. Format, yes; not styles. Just plain weird why only a handful hid.

Please upload an ODF type sample file here.

[tom14]

cant upload for privacy. Hiding endnotes also does not work.

[FJCC]

Can you make an example document based on your actual document that still shows the problem? Maybe you can reduce the number of pages so that you have one footnote that hides and one that doesn't. Then replace all the letters with x using Find & Replace. To do that, enter [:alpha:] in the Search For box, x in the Replace With box and select Regular Expressions in the More Options area. Then click Replace All and you should be done.

[RoryOF]

If the footnotes are only for information of use to the author in course of writing and revision, then one might instead use Comments (/Insert /Comment), which can globally be turned on or off (/View /Comments - not available until there is at least one Comment in a document). This could be applied to a new document, but does not help an existing situation where footnotes are already in use.

[tom14]

Thanks for all the help everyone! Comments probably won't work for my purpose - I'm looking for a marker within the document that alerts readers to additional information that can be hidden from reader view. Going back to footnotes - I imported the document into Word and was able to hide individual footnotes using the recommended approach. I did not run across any (yet) that would not hide using that approach. But that was Word. The same approach did not work in the original document.

[RoryOF]

I would position the "footnotes" at End of Document (/Tools /Footnote & Endnotes: Footnotes tab); it may then be possible to hide that page at the file end (not tried).

[tom14]

Awesome! I can work with that by positioning all footnotes at end of document. And it works. Thank you!