I've tried going into settings to change this, but don't see how it is possible. I've looked at other pages for my theme and they don't have this same problem. Please help.

.wp-caption .wp-caption-text:before {
    display:none;
}
.wp-caption .wp-caption-text {
    text-align:center;
    padding:5px 7px 0;
}

I don't know much about CSS so I don't know if your solution will work with our wp.com version of the theme. So if another volunteer knows, please jump in to say whether this is useful here or not.

Also, is there a significant difference with this "dashed caption" problem between the CSS of wp.COM and wp.ORG?

In style.css look for:
}
.wp-caption .wp-caption-text:before {
color: #666;
content:' \2014';
font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: bold;
margin-right: 5px;
position: absolute;
left: 0px;
top: 7px;

Simply remove the \2014 (special character code) from the content line. They haven't shown up since.
Please be careful when modifying anything in WordPress so you don't F-up your blog, obviously i have just given my fix and cannot be held responsible...blah, blah
Happy Blogging!

Note: the image you have used is 1600px wide. There's no point uploading such a large image when the maximum you can have in your sidebar is 177px: you're just wasting storage space and increasing the loading time of your page (also, when you use an Image widget, Internet Explorer may show the original instead of the automatically downsized version). Better downsize a copy of your image in an image editing application to a width of 177px, upload that copy in Media > Add New, copy the File URL and use that URL in the above code model. This will give you better quality as well, because images downsized by WP lose some color and sharpness.

Thanks loads

I don't see you using any image widgets.

Maybe you could control how your text is viewed. I only have access to macs, almost all alike, and using only safari and firefox, so I'm not sure. Some others may know.

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="200px" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:justify;">TEXT</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody></tbody>
</table>

or:

<div class="aligncenter" style="width:300px;text-align:justify;">TEXT</div>

Adjust the width to whatever px you want. On MistyLook, max=500px

http://www.lipsum.com/feed/html

As I said, though, I don't know if this would be useful. Not much experience with justified text on the internets...

WordPress would have to do the hyphenation, and that is not built into this system. From my experience with copywriting and graphics design, we always kept hyphenation to a bare minimum and would generally work to force all hyphenated words to the next line. We also stayed away from fully-justified text since it is harder for people to read (even though page layout programs deal with fully justified text very well).

The web simply does not have that level of sophistication at this time, which is why I absolutely never fully-justify text on the web.

This is probably like having your cake and eating it too, but is there any way to set up a fully justified blog post so that the reader's browser will insert hyphens at need?

Answer: No.
Advice: Do not mess with URLs. The software supplies them in the correct XHTML format.

Cindy

Your ecommerce site is most likely not hosted here, but on a third-party hosting site and there are a lot of things that can be done when self-hosting that cannot be done here.

Thank you,
Dan

WordPress.COM does not allow hyphens in the blog URL's.

But the system will not allow me to do this because of the hyphen how do I get a round this?