Changing photo caption fonts

I am using the template elegance with photos. I want to change the font of the image captions from italics to regular and change the color to black so the lettering shows up better. Can this be done globally, or do I have to change the captions one at a time?
Thank you.

oh jim! you are a perfectionist!
here is a quote from sboben who makes templates at http://11mystics.com ! she says:
Jean that's one of the things you can't change yet using the iWeb interface. There are a few of those elements on various pages like that. They can be changed in the template XML, but that's a very technical process that requires messing with core application files.
so, if she finds it difficult jim, then is suggest you make text-boxes yourself! you could also try this link and fiddle with .css files:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1596652#1596652
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Thanks for the specifics--and I tried that...but short of making the font so small it's unreadable, I don't think that works. As for captions being...well...captions, let me give you an idea what most photo captions are like length-wise:
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