Removing prefix from figure captions in LaTeX
Solution 1
First use the caption
package and then use the command \caption*
in this way
\usepackage{caption}
...
\caption*{some text}
instead of \caption{some text}
Logic is the same in avoiding numbering of sections and subsections and many other objects
\subsection*{Name of unnumbered subsection}
Solution 2
You can use the caption
package and do this:
\usepackage[labelformat=empty]{caption}
Solution 3
Instead of defining the caption style when loading the caption
package, set it up afterwards:
\usepackage{caption}% http://ctan.org/pkg/caption
...
\captionsetup[figure]{labelformat=empty}%
These changes will now only pertain to figure
environments.
Solution 4
You can use
\captionsetup[figure]{labelformat=empty}
to turn the caption text off and then use
\captionsetup[figure]{labelformat=default}
to turn the caption text on again if you want it to be different in different sections.
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Updated on May 24, 2020Comments
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Werner about 4 years
I'd like to make my own caption inside
\caption{}
in figures of LaTeX. How can I turn off the "Figure " prefix from the captions that appear? -
Peter over 13 yearsoops, sorry should have taken that into account. I've updated my answer.
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Admin over 13 yearsI want this to apply only to figures in one section though, not globally
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BGTP33 over 9 yearsThis does not work in a figure environment for the Beamer class at least. Actually none of these options work in Beamer as far as I can tell.
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Lenar Hoyt over 9 yearsFor beamer: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82456/…
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rbaleksandar over 7 yearsWorks like a charm for
subfloat
too. Nice! -
Max over 5 yearsFor me it works fine with beamer. According to the package's documentation beamer support was added in version 3.1 in 2007.