https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/3760/how-do-i-add-spacing-to-between-footnote-number-and-footnote-text/

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M$ Word 2016 has a space in the footnote

M$ Word has a space in the footnote.

Also, in LO, without the space, the spellchecker shows the word as a typo.

UX: should we change the default like MS Word does it? Or will there be problems with existing documents?

Footnotes have a special style (F11) with a default indentation of 0.6 and -0.6 cm for before and first line. If you change indentation to 0, as your screenshot looks like, there won't be any space. Inserting a special character such as space is not suggested. And we must not copy Microsoft Word where we do better :-) 

WONTFIX

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Good and Bad

Before someone gets mad at me, I would like to say that I don't know how but in old tests I would get a footnote "BAD" (see screenshot).

Moments ago I tried a footnote again and got a "GOOD".

I can't really explain it. Maybe I got "BAD" with an older version of LO and forgot to test it in a more recent one?

Also, if one has "GOOD" and presses DELETE (backspace) before the first character of the footnote, it becomes "BAD".

Maybe the trick should be to not allow backspace to move the text to the number?

I am not sure...

Anyway, this is the last time I will annoy you guys with this subject as there are things a lot more important than this.

Thanks!

Kind regards,

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Here we always get "BAD"

Buaaaaaaa... this is how I always got "BAD"... :((((((((

If we open a .docx with LO 5.3 and press to create a footnote, it doesn't appear in the footer and it appears glued to the number :((((((((

Just open the .docx and select to insert a footnote.

:(((((((((((

Buaaaaaaa

Can it now be considered a bug?

(In reply to Marco A.G.Pinto from comment #6)

> Just open the .docx and select to insert a footnote.

This just confirms what Heiko explains. Please look at the footnote paragraph style!
Cheers - Cor

(In reply to Cor Nouws from comment #7)
> This just confirms what Heiko explains. Please look at the footnote
> paragraph style!

And obviously it's the same in older LibreOffice versions.
Please compare with a footer paragraph style in a new ODT file.

(In reply to Marco A.G.Pinto from comment #5)
> Anyway, this is the last time I will annoy you guys with this subject as
> there are things a lot more important than this.

Please don't stop. Would be a pleasure if more of the tickets are that easy to solve. But actually you may encounter a round-trip issue. What happens when a Word document with footnotes is loaded into LibreOffice and saved back again? If Word handles footnotes incorrectly with need to cover this. QA, please double check.

(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #9)
> Please don't stop. Would be a pleasure if more of the tickets are that easy
> to solve. But actually you may encounter a round-trip issue. What happens
> when a Word document with footnotes is loaded into LibreOffice and saved
> back again? If Word handles footnotes incorrectly with need to cover this.
> QA, please double check.

I am sad to say LibreOffice makes it so MSO thinks there is a massive space. I will create a bug report.

Let's continue in bug 106062 and people are free to find other example documents - maybe there are other incorrect results.
Closing.