I am making a beamer presentation of someone else's research paper (so I don't have the original tex code). I am using pdfs of tables in the presentation but wanted to cut out all of the original captions, which can be a bit wordy for a slideshow, and simply label them with either "Table X" or "Figure X" along with the title.
So I'd like to suppress automatically inserted caption label (otherwise it would say "Figure: Table I", and so on). If I put the title/label without the \caption{}
function, then I have to fight with word wrapping.
Best Answer
Unless each member of the audience is expected to have a printed copy of the paper to follow while you do your presentation, I think it doesn't make a lot of sense to number your Figures/Tables in the presentation. How about just keeping something like "Figure: Some short title" with the standard captioning facilities from beamer?
If for some reason you really, really want to include the number of each figure/table as it appeared on the original document, you could manually redefine
\figurename
before issuing each\caption
command to include the appropriate number. For example: