Bug 89352 - Allow user to change all Footnotes to Endnotes, and vice-versa
Summary: Allow user to change all Footnotes to Endnotes, and vice-versa
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
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: 103249 143430 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Footnote-Endnote
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Reported: 2015-02-12 21:12 UTC by bernard
Modified: 2021-07-19 10:06 UTC (History)
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Description bernard 2015-02-12 21:12:23 UTC
When writing a document, it is far easier to see the notes in each page. But when publishing, specially for large document, it is often necessary to have all notes as endnotes, depending on edition format.

Now, i need to change each note type 1 by 1, which is not funny. I would apreciate a function that change the format for all notes.

Thanks !
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2015-02-13 13:43:48 UTC
Reasonable enhancement request, of unknown technical complexity. It does not appear to have been suggested in prior enhancements. Setting New.

@bernard -- would help move the suggestion along if you were to provide mockup and annotation of how you envision the feature would work. Start with simplest case of toggling all pagenotes/footnotes to endnotes--what should the GUI be? Rough sketch it out.  Opposite direction of endnotes to footnotes likely to be more of an issue, but how should it work?
Comment 2 bernard 2015-02-13 22:42:55 UTC Comment hidden (me-too)
Comment 3 bernard 2015-02-13 22:45:01 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 David 2015-02-25 09:08:47 UTC
YES PLEASE! :) 

This has *long* been a simple matter of menu choice in Word (as long as I can remember, and that goes back 15 years or so).

I asked about this on AskLibO back in 2012...

http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/5341/is-there-a-way-to-convert-all-footnotes-to-endnotes-and-vice-versa/

...but I didn't think to raise an enhancement request at the time.

This is (yet another) feature that would make refugees from MS Office much more comfortable and confident, as well as simply being a Good Thing In Itself. 

http://goo.gl/fj01mP

Those using Writer for academic writing often have cases of needing the same document in endnote and footnote format. At the moment, this is cumbersome in the extreme with LibO Writer.

Whether editing notes should be taken up as part of this enhancement request is a different matter. I take it this is simply about endnote/footnote conversion (and vice versa).
Comment 6 Timur 2018-03-06 12:51:06 UTC
Copying from the link: 
"It takes 2 passes with normal search replace: class="footnote to class="endnote AND name="Footnote to name="Endnote (or vice versa)"
Comment 7 Timur 2020-03-23 09:55:43 UTC
*** Bug 103249 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Timur 2021-07-19 08:42:32 UTC
*** Bug 143430 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 R. Green 2021-07-19 09:55:28 UTC
It is already possible to change Footnotes to de facto "Endnotes" by selecting Position > End of Document (Tools > Footnotes & Endnnotes > Footnotes).

I would like to sugest the following enhancement (Bug 143430). Extend the properties of ENDNOTES so that they have the same options as FOOTNOTES (as seen in Tools > Footnotes & Endnnotes > Footnotes).

In effect FOOTNOTES and ENDNOTES would become two varieties of the same thing. The essential difference being that Footnotes would have a default setting of "End of Page", while Endnotes would have a default setting of "End of document".

This would allow Endnotes and Footnotes to become freely interchageable. It would also give users the option of having two sets of "Footnotes" with different anchor/character styles. The latter is sometimes needed "for parallel sequences of notes serving different purposes" (New Harts Rules, 2005, p. 315).
Comment 10 R. Green 2021-07-19 10:06:26 UTC
Sorry, my last comment was added in error. Could someone make it "obsolete". 

But +1 to the feature request.