Customizing Auto Generated Captions in InDesign

[Michellef_MTFA]

I am auto-generating captions for imaegs as I place them. The easiest way to do this, in my mind, is to use the file name since my captions are short. I don't seem to be able to strip the extension out of the file name however. Can this be done or will I be adding metadata to all of my images? (May not matter but I'm runnimg Windows, InD CS 16.3 v 64)

Thx!

[Eugene Tyson · Accepted solution]

There's quite a handy trick here

https://creativepro.com/how-to-make-the-file-extension-go-away-in-captions/

[Michellef_MTFA]

I love this, it's so wonderfully nerdy, thanks for the suggestion.