Place a file name under an image in InDesign

This little trick saved hours off a project today. Full credit goes to this Computer Arts article, which details a ton of options and modifiers on this trick.

All I wanted to do was place the name of the file underneath an image. I mean, that's easy enough to do manually, right? Just copy the file name and paste it under. But I had to do it with nearly 500 items, so the manual route was somewhat out of the question.

[image error]

Start out by placing your images wherever you like. For the purposes of this tutorial, I've just taken two jpegs. Next, select whichever images you want to include the name. Then, right-click, find the "Captions" line, and select "generate static caption."

[image error]

Selecting "generate static caption" will create a text box undernear the photo displaying the file name. There are loads of options within Caption setup (and, if you follow the tutorial above, with Bridge and metadata), but for most people this is just fine.

[image error]