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# Caption

Adds a numbered caption to a selected image, table, chart, frame, or shape. You can also access this command by right-clicking the item that you want to add the caption to.

To access this command...

#### From the menu bar:

Choose Insert - Caption

#### From the context menu:

Choose Insert Caption

#### From the tabbed interface:

Choose Image - Caption.

#### From toolbars:

Insert Caption

## Caption

Type the text that you want to appear after the caption category and caption number.

## Properties

Set the caption options for the current selection.

### Category

Select the caption category, or type a name to create a new category. The category text appears before or after the caption number, depending on the Caption order setting in Options. Captions made with a predefined caption category are formatted with a paragraph style with the same name as the category. For example, captions made with the “Illustration” caption category are formatted with the “Illustration” paragraph style.

### Numbering

Select the type of numbering that you want to use in the caption. The selection is also applied to any previous captions in the category.

### After number

Enter optional text characters to appear between numbering and category. Only active when Numbering first is selected for Caption order in Options.

### Before caption

Enter optional text characters to appear after the caption category and number and before the caption text. These characters are not inserted if no caption text is given.

### Position

Adds the caption above or below the selected item. This option is only available for some objects.

## Options

Opens the Options dialog, where it is possible to customize the appearance of the caption label. You can choose to add a heading number to the caption number, add a character style to the caption category and number, and choose the order of the caption category and caption number.

## AutoCaption

Opens the AutoCaption dialog. This is the same dialog you get by Tools - Options - LibreOfficeDev Writer - AutoCaption. Changes to this dialog do not affect the inserted caption for the current selection.

Related Topics

Using Captions

Adding Heading Numbers to Captions