[Tex/LaTex] Remove automatic table headline

captionstables

I use LaTeX for creating PDF output from R – not to create long documents. Hence the automatic Table 1: <caption> above the table is rather annoying. How can I remove the automatically generated Table 1:? Is it at all possible?

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Use the caption package with the labelformat=empty option:

\documentclass[10pt,letterpaper]{article}

\usepackage[labelformat=empty]{caption}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lll}
1 & 2 & 3 \\
a & b & c
\end{tabular}
\caption{Some super-secret data.}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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I suggest you load the package caption with the following option:

\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup[table]{labelsep=space}

If you want this setting, i.e., a space instead of a colon, to apply to figure environments as well, you'd just remove the [table] option from the \captionsetup command.

A separate issue: To get the caption to print above the body of the float, all you need to do is to specify the caption (and its label, if any) after the \begin{table/figure} command but before starting a tabular environment and/or before including some external graphics file.

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You can suppress the caption label in saveral ways using features provided by the caption package:

Using \caption* instead of \caption:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[h]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{c} 
    text1\\
    text2
  \end{tabular}
  \caption*{This is my caption.}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Using the option labelformat=empty for \captionsetup.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}

\captionsetup[table]{labelformat=empty}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[h]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{c} 
    text1\\
    text2
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{This is my caption.}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Since I used table as optional argument for \captionsetup, this change will only affect the table environments; of course, you can use figure instead (to affect only the figure environment), or no optional argument at all, which means that the change will affect all your floating objects.

Also, as I used \captionsetup in the preamble, the change will affect all the (in this case) table environments in your document; if you want the change to affect only a particular table environment, you can use

\captionsetup{labelformat=empty}

inside that particular table environment.

The result after compilation of any of my example codes is

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