At 03:32 15/08/2009 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote:
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, ...
It's not exactly nonsense - providing you understand what you are looking at. The words "Number range Illustration" are the name of a field and will not appear in the document as printed, but will be replaced by the actual number of the illustration. Just use File | Page Preview (or the Page Preview button in the Standard toolbar) to see that this is so. You can toggle between field names and their values at View | Field Names (or Ctrl+F9).
... and when I try to edit the text to remove the nonsense, I'm stymied: ...
I'm surprised by that. I can edit the caption text - that's your real caption - in place, as well as the initial word "Illustration". You cannot tinker with the field name, of course, but you can delete the entire field in ways that you would expect.
Trying to click in the caption does not change the cursor to a text cursor.
Ah! You can do this if you do not have the illustration selected, and you can do this if you have the illustration selected (so that it shows the eight green handles) but without the caption selected. But no: you apparently cannot get at the caption text if you have the illustration and its caption selected together - so that the green handles span both.
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.
That's because that menu item is - oddly - creating a second caption for the same illustration, so no: you cannot edit the original caption here.
As has already been suggested, you can suppress the automatic text when you create a caption by selecting <None> (instead of Illustration) for Category in the Caption dialogue.
I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
