Hello guys
I am working on my phd several months and suddenly my foothnotes in word are gone. There were over 50footnos and now they are all gone.
Footnote have disapeared from text after i work in another computer and i save my document in .odt format. Is there a way to recover my footnotes??Can some1 help me ?

How did you move the files between the two PCs? one reference I found (not convincing enough to be worth giving the URL) suggested that working from a USB stick may cause all sorts of problems.

I would expect the problem to have been introduced by saving the document to odt format. Translating the document into non-Word formats is likely to result in loss of some of the features of a Word document especially if the target software doesn't support that feature in the same way.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Couldn't reproduce your problem – which is a pity, because that means I can't suggest anything that might help :-{ Here's what I did:

1. make short .docx with footnotes and transfer file by e-mail
2. open .docx with LibreOffice 4.2.5.2 – footnotes present, but poorly formatted with extra empty paragraphs
3. delete empty paragraphs, save .docx as .docx and as .odt, send both files back by e-mail
4a. open .docx in Word 2010: footnotes present and correct
4b. open .odt in Word 2010, ignore warnings about "corruption": footnotes present and correct

fwiw, the new .docx file includes a separate footnotes.xml; the .odt keeps the footnote information in the main content.xml file. Any back-up files left on the second PC?