I don't think you are going to be able to do this using newspaper columns,
but you could put the text in a table then add your footnotes and they would
come out correctly at the bottom of the page.

"Neetsie2k" wrote:

I have a document that is done in column format and has footnotes. We need
the footnotes not to be done in column format (i.e., run from left to right
along the length of the page). Is there any way this can be accomplished?
Thanks for all replies.