2009/8/15 John Kaufmann <[email protected]> > After importing a picture to a Writer document, and giving it a caption, my > caption text is preceded by the words "Illustration Number range > Illustration: " It's not clear why I get that nonsense text, and when I try > to edit the text to remove the nonsense, I'm stymied: the Help just says > "You can edit caption text directly in the document" - but how? > > Anywhere inside the picture frame, the cursor indicates that I can only > move or resize the frame. Trying to click in the caption does not change > the cursor to a text cursor. A right click in the caption (or anywhere else > in the frame, for that matter), brings up a context menu which includes > "Caption" - but that does not allow to edit (or even delete) the existing > text. What am I missing? > > John > > On the pane into which you type the caption there's a drop-down list labelled "Category". Select "<none>" from that list and the prefix-text goes away.
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