Adding Reply Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic OOo writer - captioning Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post Periwinkle Posted at 8:37 am on June 23, 2009 I have a piece of coursework that's full of diagrams. All of these diagrams need to be captioned like this: Fig. 1.2 A picture of a tree Is there a way I can tell it to caption them all at once? If I set them all up with captions, can I somehow get it to number them automatically? (I need it to change from fig. 1 to fig. 2 and stuff, so I'd need to set up some kind of chapters?) Or if you know any other freeware that'll do that for me...(I'm using ubuntu)

Replies anonomouse Posted at 2:25 am on June 29, 2009 OpenOffice has pretty good support for stuff like that. They just do it in a weird way. Here's how: First, set up your document so that it has the different sections/chapters labeled. For each chapter title, you must use a certain paragraph style. Press F11 to view the styles window. By default, the first level of "outlining" is the style "Heading 1". Right-click on this in the "Styles and Formatting" window (from F11) and click "modify". Modify that style to how you want it and apply it (by double-clicking) to all of your chapter titles. Go to Tools>Outline Numbering and for the first level, change "Paragraph Style" to "Heading 1" and "Number" to "1, 2, 3, ...". This sets OOo to recognize the paragraph style "Header 1" as outline level one. Now, for each picture you insert, select the picture and go to Insert>Caption. In "Category" type "Figure" (without quotes). Click "Options" and set the level to 1 and separator to a period. Then, the figures should appear how you want them throughout the document and the numbers will automatically update.