When opening a document that was set to restart footnote numbering on each page, if the document is saved as a DOC then it reverts to continuous numbering *in MSWord only*. (LibreOffice DOES import with per-page numbering). According to Linux bibisect43all, this has been true since at least LO3.5. This is a companion to DOCX bug 92470. Use that bug's ODT attachment 116974 [details] which has per-page renumbering. When saving it as a .doc format, MSWord will still consider it to be "continuous" numbering.
proposed fix: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/43622
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=e46d27a692f43192ba29f03c473f43bb16c1444f tdf#105381 ww8export: support footnote numbering per page It will be available in 6.0.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.