This accords with common typographic advice: footnotes and tables are reckoned not to mix. Footnotes in LaTeX section headings The \footnote command is fragile, so that simply placing the command in \sections arguments isn’t satisfactory.Using \protect\footnote isn’t a good idea either: the arguments of a section command are used in the table of contents and (more dangerously) potentially also in page headers. To do this use \footnote[0]{A footnote} to get an unnumbered footnote. Sure, but it's not an insoluble problem, and Writer already handles the simple cases correctly but it seems there are cases where something goes off. but LaTeX/PDFLaTeX is not showing any of the footnotes you declared inside the \tabular environment. \footnote[10]{footnotes working fine} Adds a footnote using "10" as reference mark. So I went for something similar to stefanct, using the same example as in the original post it should be something like this: The documentation displays some other options that you could fiddle with to obtain the results you require. I don't think this is really a Beamer question, more of a latex question. To add a footnote with an asterisk, use the below declaration. As a result, you get footnote marks in the table, and nothing else. One simple thing to check (this was suggested in the issue comments) is that the footnotes or text should not have any "do not split paragraph" or "keep with next paragraph" settings. What you need to do is: Write code to queue Latex code — like a hook in emacs: very standard technique, if not every Latex hacker can actually do this right; Temporarily redefine \footnote to add a footnote macro to your queue; Solution: Use this code just after your \documentclass declaration: \usepackage{footnote} \makesavenoteenv{tabular} Then recompile your LaTeX code. The footnotes end up on the page where the table environment is called in the latex-code, not where the table is placed in the final document. LaTeX offers the \footnote command and referencing works using the \label and \ref commands. – John Dvorak Feb 10 '14 at 2:33 No I don't believe so – user28823 Feb 10 '14 at 2:36 The footnotes inside your tabular should now appear as expected. It happens to me as well, but only on Mathematics and not in the private mode. Unless you have a good reason to do this, it's not recommended because the footnote counter is not altered and you may end up with two different footnotes with the same mark. \footnotemark Prints a foot note mark but without the actual footnote. \\begin{verbatim*} Spaces are shown as . Verbatim text \\begin{verbatim} Verbatim environment. Incidentally, Till, I've noticed that footnotes sometimes tend to overlap the navigation symbols; is there a way to prevent this? October 2011) 20 % pdfview=Fit, FitV, FitR, FitB, FitBV work The tablefootnote package H.-Martin Munc h 2014/01/26 v1.1c Abstract This LATEX package provides the command \tablefootnote to be used in a table or sidewaystable environment, where \footnote will not work and Footnotes whose texts are identical If the same footnote turns up at several places within a document, it’s often inappropriate to repeat the footnote in its entirety over and over again. 16 pdfkeywords={LaTeX, tablefootnote, footnote, table, H.-Martin Muench},% 17 % pdfview=FitH and FitBH do not work: hyperlinks in sidewaystables 18 % do no lead to the footnotes, due to a bug in pdfTeX, 19 % computing wrong anchor coordinates (Heiko Oberdiek, 29. Footnotes in tables The standard LaTeX \footnote command doesn’t work in tables; the tabular environment (and its “relations”) traps footnotes, and they can’t escape to the bottom of the page. This is some example text\footnote{\label{myfootnote}Hello footnote}. I need my table to be within a table environment. ... After compilation you will see the footnote appearing on the bottom of your page. It's not difficult to write your own bespoke footnote-queuing code. The 'hang' option flushes the footnote marker to the left margin of the page, while the 'flushmargin' option flushes the text as well.