Issue 24445

Summary: Can't put caption above an illustration
Product: Writer Reporter: wsande <wsande>
Component: uiAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: gbpacheco, giuseppe.castagno, issues, marius.andreiana, smokey.ardisson
Version: OOo 1.1Keywords: oooqa
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: DEFECT Latest Confirmation in: 4.0.1
Developer Difficulty: ---
Issue Depends on: 3734    
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Description Flags
Screen capture of Caption dialog
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Patch to enable the option in the dialogs none

Description wsande 2004-01-15 16:40:22 UTC 
When adding a caption to an illustration (drawing object or group of drawing 
objects), the "position" field is greyed out, and set to "below".  There seems 
to be no way to put a caption ABOVE an illustration.
Comment 1 h.ilter 2004-01-16 14:12:34 UTC 
Please attach a sample to see such object for the caption.
Comment 2 wsande 2004-01-20 19:50:15 UTC 
To reproduce:
- put a drawing object in a document
- select the drawing object, right-click and select "Caption"
- Notice that the "Position" drop-down is greyed out, and set to below, so the 
caption can only be placed below, not above. (see attached screen capture)
Comment 3 wsande 2004-01-20 19:51:57 UTC 
Created attachment 12608 [details]
Screen capture of Caption dialog
Comment 4 jack.warchold 2004-02-20 14:30:06 UTC 
confirmed on SO5.2, OOo1.0.3, OOo1.1.0, OOo1.1.1b  and 680m23 :)

as requested by os

reassigned to os
Comment 5 lohmaier 2004-03-12 21:49:25 UTC 
please also have a look at issue 26414 (request to be able to place the caption
to the right/left of an object).
If you want to handle both in one single issue please mark the other one as
duplicate (and update the summary :-) - thank you.
Comment 6 Oliver Specht 2004-06-13 10:15:38 UTC 
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Comment 7 sardisson 2005-03-27 23:40:21 UTC 
A work-around is to go to the Text Document: General section of the Options,
click on the ... button next to Object selection, and then change the "default"
settings for illustration to "above."

I agree that it is a serious usability bug that one cannot override the default
position when entering a new caption.

The platform/OS should be all because this bug is present on Mac OS X, too.
Comment 8 Oliver Specht 2005-04-01 11:30:08 UTC 
Caption above is currently not implemented for drawing and pictures.
Comment 9 Giuseppe Castagno (aka beppec56) 2007-06-01 10:18:09 UTC 
cc myself.
Comment 10 username132 2008-07-03 10:38:32 UTC 
I would like to be able to put captions to the side (left or right).
Comment 11 Ariel Constenla-Haile 2013-11-21 12:10:47 UTC 
Created attachment 81972 [details]
Patch to enable the option in the dialogs

This patch and the patch in attachment 81756 [details] allow inserting the caption "Above"; but enabling it shows some problems (the frame hight is smaller than the graphic's hight), so this needs further work.