Created attachment 196366 [details]
FootnoteAnchorStyling.docx: created by MS Word 2010 - intentionally irrational

LibreOffice forces a uniform footnote character style through Tools - Footnote Settings - "Anchor in footnote". (It does something similar for the "anchor in text", but that one is just "default formatting" while the "Anchor in footnote" appears to be programmatically forced.)

However, that "forced uniformity" is alien to DOC/X formats, where footnote anchors are just independently formatted text like anything else.

This isn't terribly important because very few people will create documents with non-uniform footnote formatting. However, it is a fundamental difference between LO and Word.

Steps to reproduce:
1.) open FootnoteAnchorStyling.docx

Notice that in the body, the footnote anchor-in-text are green, blue and red, mostly very large sizes, and a mix of subscript/superscript/none.

However, the footnote area has no colour (should be red, blue, green), no size (other than defined by the paragraph style), and no subscript/superscript.