diff --git a/data/odt/styles.xml b/data/odt/styles.xml
index 1f1e2c5c8..623a89051 100644
--- a/data/odt/styles.xml
+++ b/data/odt/styles.xml
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ xmlns:css3t="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/" office:version="1.2">
       style:font-size-complex="12pt"
       style:font-style-complex="italic" />
     </style:style>
-    <style:style style:name="TableCaption" style:family="paragraph"
+    <style:style style:name="Table" style:family="paragraph"
     style:parent-style-name="Caption" style:class="extra">
     </style:style>
     <style:style style:name="FigureCaption" style:family="paragraph"
diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Odt/ContentReader.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Odt/ContentReader.hs
index 3a6a99237..2672b01ef 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Odt/ContentReader.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Odt/ContentReader.hs
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ withNewStyle a = proc x -> do
   where
     isCodeStyle :: StyleName -> Bool
     isCodeStyle "Source_Text" = True
-    isCodeStyle _              = False
+    isCodeStyle _             = False
 
     inlineCode :: Inlines -> Inlines
     inlineCode = code . intercalate "" . map stringify . toList
@@ -415,12 +415,18 @@ constructPara reader = proc blocks -> do
   fStyle <- readStyleByName -< blocks
   case fStyle of
     Left   _    -> reader -< blocks
+    Right (styleName, _) | isTableCaptionStyle styleName -> do
+      blocks' <- reader   -< blocks
+      arr tableCaptionP  -< blocks'
     Right (_, style) -> do
       let modifier = getParaModifier style
-      blocks' <- reader -< blocks
-      arr modifier -<< blocks'
-
-
+      blocks' <- reader   -<  blocks
+      arr modifier        -<< blocks'
+  where
+    isTableCaptionStyle :: StyleName -> Bool
+    isTableCaptionStyle "Table" = True
+    isTableCaptionStyle _       = False
+    tableCaptionP b = divWith ("", ["caption"], []) b
 
 type ListConstructor = [Blocks] -> Blocks
 
@@ -904,6 +910,15 @@ read_text = matchChildContent' [ read_header
                                ]
             >>^ doc
 
+post_process :: Pandoc -> Pandoc
+post_process (Pandoc m blocks) =
+  Pandoc m (post_process' blocks)
+
+post_process' :: [Block] -> [Block]
+post_process' ((Table _ a w h r) : (Div ("", ["caption"], _) [Para inlines] ) : xs) =
+  (Table inlines a w h r) : ( post_process' xs )
+post_process' bs = bs
+
 read_body :: OdtReader _x (Pandoc, MediaBag)
 read_body = executeIn NsOffice "body"
           $ executeIn NsOffice "text"
@@ -911,4 +926,4 @@ read_body = executeIn NsOffice "body"
           $ proc inlines -> do
              txt   <- read_text     -< inlines
              state <- getExtraState -< ()
-             returnA                -< (txt, getMediaBag state)
+             returnA                -< (post_process txt, getMediaBag state)
diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/OpenDocument.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/OpenDocument.hs
index 42c151780..8bd0f469e 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/OpenDocument.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/OpenDocument.hs
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ blockToOpenDocument o bs
         mapM_ addParaStyle . newPara $ paraHStyles ++ paraStyles
         captionDoc <- if null c
                       then return empty
-                      else withParagraphStyle o "TableCaption" [Para c]
+                      else withParagraphStyle o "Table" [Para c]
         th <- if all null h
                  then return empty
                  else colHeadsToOpenDocument o name (map fst paraHStyles) h
diff --git a/tests/Tests/Readers/Odt.hs b/tests/Tests/Readers/Odt.hs
index d6ed48f8d..cd764dd62 100644
--- a/tests/Tests/Readers/Odt.hs
+++ b/tests/Tests/Readers/Odt.hs
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ namesOfTestsComparingToNative   = [ "blockquote"
                                   , "referenceToListItem"
                                   , "referenceToText"
                                   , "simpleTable"
+                                  , "simpleTableWithCaption"
 --                                , "table"
                                   , "unicode"
                                   , "unorderedList"
diff --git a/tests/odt/native/simpleTableWithCaption.native b/tests/odt/native/simpleTableWithCaption.native
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..18d68b772
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/odt/native/simpleTableWithCaption.native
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+[Table [Str "Table",Space,Str "1:",Space,Str "Some",Space,Str "caption",Space,Str "for",Space,Str "a",Space,Str "table"] [AlignDefault,AlignDefault] [0.0,0.0] [[],[]] [[[Plain [Str "Content"]],[Plain [Str "More",Space,Str "content"]]]],Para []]
diff --git a/tests/odt/odt/simpleTableWithCaption.odt b/tests/odt/odt/simpleTableWithCaption.odt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ec6fac894
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/odt/odt/simpleTableWithCaption.odt differ
diff --git a/tests/tables.opendocument b/tests/tables.opendocument
index aa35abc91..0765bb783 100644
--- a/tests/tables.opendocument
+++ b/tests/tables.opendocument
@@ -63,8 +63,7 @@
     </table:table-cell>
   </table:table-row>
 </table:table>
-<text:p text:style-name="TableCaption">Demonstration of simple table
-syntax.</text:p>
+<text:p text:style-name="Table">Demonstration of simple table syntax.</text:p>
 <text:p text:style-name="First_20_paragraph">Simple table without
 caption:</text:p>
 <table:table table:name="Table2" table:style-name="Table2">
@@ -197,8 +196,7 @@ spaces:</text:p>
     </table:table-cell>
   </table:table-row>
 </table:table>
-<text:p text:style-name="TableCaption">Demonstration of simple table
-syntax.</text:p>
+<text:p text:style-name="Table">Demonstration of simple table syntax.</text:p>
 <text:p text:style-name="First_20_paragraph">Multiline table with
 caption:</text:p>
 <table:table table:name="Table4" table:style-name="Table4">
@@ -253,8 +251,8 @@ caption:</text:p>
     </table:table-cell>
   </table:table-row>
 </table:table>
-<text:p text:style-name="TableCaption">Here's the caption. It may span
-multiple lines.</text:p>
+<text:p text:style-name="Table">Here's the caption. It may span multiple
+lines.</text:p>
 <text:p text:style-name="First_20_paragraph">Multiline table without
 caption:</text:p>
 <table:table table:name="Table5" table:style-name="Table5">