Contact Sheet II, Caption Overflow

Hi,
We're currently using CS5 and have InDesign CS2 + Adobe Bridge CS2 loaded on one computer. We use this instance for it's contact sheet feature. It appears that something simliar to this is in Adobe CS6 via Photoshop, but when I create a contact sheet, it doesn't appear to autofit the caption on the page as it did in CS2. This results in ellipsises at the end of all our captions.
Is there a way to fix this? If not, we can't upgrade this instance.
Thanks,
Jack Musick

Do you mean the file name (caption) is cut off and there are periods (dots) at the end name?
Did you try adjusting the pt size for the caption (bottom of contact sheet II dialog)?

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