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I have several .tex documents and my supervisor requires me to combine all my papers into a main .tex file. I am a noob in LaTeX, and I searched for many related topics but still don't know where going wrong. Could any one give me a simple example of combined code please (e.g. what package should I ...

Here is my code. The second table is just named as "Table 5(b)" rather than "Table 4(b)".
\begin{table}
\renewcommand{\thetable}{\arabic{table}(a)}
\small
\caption{This is table 4(a)}
\label{t:4(a)}
\begin{tabular}{r|rrrrr|rrrrr}\hline
~ & \multicolumn{5}{c|}{1}& \multicolumn{5}{|c}{2 ...

Hi,

I have a table numbered as "4(a)" and I want my next table to be numbered as "4(b)", but the result is "5(a)" instead. Any idea would be appreciate, many thanks!

ZG