Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Changing Figure and Table Caption Format

[yalag]

The defualt style in my machine is

Figure 1:

I am tring to change it to

Figure 1. (dot instead of colon).

How do I do this?

Thank you very much for this wonderful forum.

[benti]

use the caption package. It has an option to set the separator.

[yalag]

Thanks - it works great.