Is there a way to remove quotation marks?

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if you don't have a caption it just shows two quotation marks. Is there a way to remove these?
Also, anyway to doll up the font on captions? Maybe I missed it.
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In the slide show I wanted to have my captions. They are all in quotes (which I don't like) and the photos without captions have just the quotation marks.
 
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didn't answer that very clearly sorry. When the slide show plays the captions that I put on each photo in the Library Module are all in quotes.
 
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Two possibilities:

(A) The caption has quotes in it. If so, go back to Library and delete the quotes.

(B) Your text template in the Slideshow module has the quotes.

If it's not (A), try this:

(1) In the Slideshow module, click on the caption displayed with your image.

(2) In the toolbar, you should now see a text box showing your caption. To its left should be the word "Caption", though it could be something else. Click on that and select "Edit..." from the bottom of the context menu.

(3) In the white text box near the top of the template editor, it should say Caption (on a Mac, it's in a blue oval). Are there quotes around it? If so, delete the quotes and click Done.

If not, I have no other guesses.
 
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tallyHo said:
In the slide show I wanted to have my captions. They are all in quotes (which I don't like) and the photos without captions have just the quotation marks.
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What version of LR and what OS are you using? It would be helpful for answering these questions if you would add a signature w/ your system specs. See the 'User CP' menu item at the top of the page and add something like what you see at the bottom of other users' comments.

I had the same problem (quotes on slideshow captions) when I first started using slideshow in ver 1. It turned out that the quotes were being added in the slideshow template. The solution is to find the template that you are using in the LR presets area. Copy the file w/ a different name to a 'User Templates' sub-directory of the 'Slideshow Templates' directory. Now, open up your re-named template in a pure text editor (in Windows, you can use Notepad). Search for a line that has 'adobe.caption' in it. You should find a line that looks like this:

value = "\"{{com.adobe.caption}}\"",

Change it to look like this:

value = "{{com.adobe.caption}}",

Save the file, restart LR, and your new template should show up in the template list. What you have done is remove the \" from the beginning and end of the caption (\" is what adds the quotations to the beginning and end of the caption). You're now a lua programmer; wasn't that easy?

If you're on LR 2, I have no idea if this is still the same. Good Luck,
 
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Thanks so much for that. Will work on it and let you know.
I just bought the first version of lightroom so I'm reluctant to spend the cash on the update just yet. OSX the latest!

Have a great day,
Susan
 
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How long ago Susan? Adobe have been known to do free upgrades within certain time spans. No harm in asking them! ;)
 
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Mark Sirota said:
BTW, Bruce's approach is the programmer's way of doing what I suggested through the GUI. Good to confirm that I was (probably) on the right track...
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I plead guilty :).

I went back and re-read your answer and it now makes more sense to me. I had no idea you could do that from the interface. Learn something every day.
 
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