> It certainly depends on what stuff you added to the preamble... Sorry, there was another thread where some people recommended this but I forgot this would start a different thread and people wouldn't know what I was talking about. Here's what I added (I have no idea what any of it means, only thing I know is the \small\itshape is supposed to make my captions small italic).
\newcommand\myCaption[1]{\small\itshape\refstepcounter{figure}% \begin{center}\figurename\ \thefigure :\ #1\end{center}\normalfont} \let\caption\myCaption Alex