Endnotes on same page

[mneumann]

Is ther any way in Writer to put the endnotes at the last page right after the regular text? This is was MS Word normally does, and it is quite a luxury to have a separate page for 2 endnotes. If anybody has a solution so I dont need to convert all my files to Word I would be very happy.

[Freakwitch]

Bump!

I'm having this same problem, and thus far it's the one thing keeping me from using OOW for some academic books I'm typesetting.

Does anyone have a solution?

[mneumann]

I found out if you have sections that you can have endnotes at the end of the section. So what I did for now is to create a template that starts with a new section (though there is only one). That trick allows me to have endnotes at the same page. It would be nice if Openoffice would have by default some more flexibility in this point, but in the meanwhile that workaround is solving the problem for me.

[freiheit]

Presumably OpenOffice.org uses some Style to denote the endnotes portion of the document. This Style probably has a "page break before" option set. If you edit the endnote Style you can remove this.

This is only a guess, as I haven't used footnotes or endnotes since about 1994 in WordPerfect 5.1.
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[Kaaredyret]

[freiheit]

Well that may be the problem -- it's a PAGE style. It might be possible to create your own PARAGRAPH style for endnotes and manually apply that style to the text. However this will probably mess things up if you later revise the document to add another endnote. That is to say, when OpenOffice.org tries to rebuild the endnote index according to its internal understanding (programming) that endnotes are a page style.
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[nrubdarb]

Hi All,

Some time since this was posted, but I found IMHO a neat solution based on the idea that freiheit had.

I first tried the tip from mneumann, but it did not help -- I couldn't get any different layout using a section, although I may have done something wrong: I'm not expert on sections.

However, as already said, if you navigate to the page where endnotes start, and click on the page styles tab in the Stylist, it will reveal that the endnotes are using their own 'Endnote' page style. My solution therefore involved simply setting the header to 'on' for the endnotes page style, and then adding a simple header.

This may not really be what you want for a document with more than one page of Endnotes: the header repeats, since you can only define ONE page style for Endnotes. But it works for me in this case.
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[mlissner]

Well, it's two years later, and still no real fix for this....

[pilczew]

First place (insert) Main Text in SECTION
Next select from menu
FORMAT / SECTIONS / OPTIONS
Mark Endnotes at same page as text

[arnotixe]