Add Image Captions Fast in InDesign

The captions features in InDesign are cool, but if you already have dozens or even hundreds of images on multiple InDesign pages, you might be thinking “hmm, I need to select images if I want to add captions, so I guess I will be selecting all the
images, page by page.” Wrong! Instead, there is one place in InDesign that allows you to target all the images in the file at the same time and apply captions to them?



But where . . . ?

Give up?

The correct answer is the Links panel. This panel not only lists all of the images in your file but also lets you add captions to all these images.


First, set up the captions for your document (choose Object > Captions > Caption Setup). This same command is also in the Links panel menu.


Then in the Links panel select all the links you want to add captions to. You can click on one and Shift-click on the last one.



Finally, choose Captions > Generate Static Captions from the Links panel menu (or right-click on the images in the Links panel).



Voilà, all the captions are added throughout the document!