diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/OpenDocument.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/OpenDocument.hs
index e2c8abd2e..f00ae12bf 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/OpenDocument.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/OpenDocument.hs
@@ -393,7 +393,10 @@ blockToOpenDocument o bs
         mapM_ addParaStyle . newPara $ paraHStyles ++ paraStyles
         captionDoc <- if null c
                       then return empty
-                      else inlinesToOpenDocument o c >>= numberedTableCaption
+                      else inlinesToOpenDocument o c >>=
+                             if True -- temporary: see #5474
+                                then unNumberedCaption "TableCaption"
+                                else numberedTableCaption
         th <- if all null h
                  then return empty
                  else colHeadsToOpenDocument o (map fst paraHStyles) h
@@ -405,7 +408,10 @@ blockToOpenDocument o bs
         withParagraphStyle o "Figure" [Para [Image attr caption (source,title)]]
                                   | otherwise    = do
         imageDoc <- withParagraphStyle o "FigureWithCaption" [Para [Image attr caption (source,title)]]
-        captionDoc <- inlinesToOpenDocument o caption >>= numberedFigureCaption
+        captionDoc <- inlinesToOpenDocument o caption >>=
+                         if True -- temporary: see #5474
+                            then unNumberedCaption "FigureCaption"
+                            else numberedFigureCaption
         return $ imageDoc $$ captionDoc
 
 
@@ -434,6 +440,9 @@ numberedCaption style term name num caption =
         c = text ": "
     in inParagraphTagsWithStyle style $ hcat [ t, text " ", s, c, caption ]
 
+unNumberedCaption :: Monad m => String -> Doc -> OD m Doc
+unNumberedCaption style caption = return $ inParagraphTagsWithStyle style caption
+
 colHeadsToOpenDocument :: PandocMonad m
                        => WriterOptions -> [String] -> [[Block]]
                        -> OD m Doc
diff --git a/test/tables.opendocument b/test/tables.opendocument
index 5c68476b8..250bce1b9 100644
--- a/test/tables.opendocument
+++ b/test/tables.opendocument
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@
     </table:table-cell>
   </table:table-row>
 </table:table>
-<text:p text:style-name="Table">Table <text:sequence text:ref-name="refTable0" text:name="Table" text:formula="ooow:Table+1" style:num-format="1">1</text:sequence>: Demonstration
-of simple table syntax.</text:p>
+<text:p text:style-name="TableCaption">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 +197,8 @@ spaces:</text:p>
     </table:table-cell>
   </table:table-row>
 </table:table>
-<text:p text:style-name="Table">Table <text:sequence text:ref-name="refTable1" text:name="Table" text:formula="ooow:Table+1" style:num-format="1">2</text:sequence>: Demonstration
-of simple table syntax.</text:p>
+<text:p text:style-name="TableCaption">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 +253,8 @@ caption:</text:p>
     </table:table-cell>
   </table:table-row>
 </table:table>
-<text:p text:style-name="Table">Table <text:sequence text:ref-name="refTable2" text:name="Table" text:formula="ooow:Table+1" style:num-format="1">3</text:sequence>: Here’s
-the caption. It may span multiple lines.</text:p>
+<text:p text:style-name="TableCaption">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">
diff --git a/test/writer.opendocument b/test/writer.opendocument
index 2d9068d07..95e909029 100644
--- a/test/writer.opendocument
+++ b/test/writer.opendocument
@@ -1879,7 +1879,7 @@ link in pointy braces</text:span></text:a>.</text:p>
 <text:p text:style-name="First_20_paragraph">From “Voyage dans la Lune” by
 Georges Melies (1902):</text:p>
 <text:p text:style-name="FigureWithCaption"><draw:frame draw:name="img1"><draw:image xlink:href="lalune.jpg" xlink:type="simple" xlink:show="embed" xlink:actuate="onLoad" /></draw:frame></text:p>
-<text:p text:style-name="FigureCaption">Figure <text:sequence text:ref-name="refIllustration0" text:name="Illustration" text:formula="ooow:Illustration+1" style:num-format="1">1</text:sequence>: lalune</text:p>
+<text:p text:style-name="FigureCaption">lalune</text:p>
 <text:p text:style-name="Text_20_body">Here is a movie
 <draw:frame draw:name="img2"><draw:image xlink:href="movie.jpg" xlink:type="simple" xlink:show="embed" xlink:actuate="onLoad" /></draw:frame>
 icon.</text:p>