Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ How not to number selected figures?

[jeffsrad]

Following the finishing of Chapter 5, the part III of my thesis starts with an Overview that is followed by the start of Chapter 6. The Overview (which is neither part of Chapter 5 nor part of Chapter 6) is composed of some text and two figures. The two figures in the Overview of Part III are automatically (and unwantedly) numbered as 5.5 and 5.6, simply because the figure number of my last figure in Chapter 5 is 5.4.

My question is: how tell Latex not assign any number to the two Figures in the Overview in Part III?

My failed attempts:
I tried the following based on a tutorial online, but it stopped the compile process.

I put this in my main.tex:

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\usepackage{caption}

I put this in my Overview.tex

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\captionsetup[figure]{labelformat=empty, labelsep=none}
\begin{figure}[h]
  \centerline{\includegraphics[width=6in]{images/fig_IIIa.PNG}}
  \caption{un-numbered sample figure} \label{IIIa}
\end{figure}

Any ideas? Thanks!

[sommerfee]

My question is: how tell Latex not assign any number to the two Figures in the Overview in Part III?

You could do the description of the pictures with ordinary text instead of using \caption.

I tried the following based on a tutorial online

This should work, too.

but it stopped the compile process.

Could you please tell us the error message? Or even better: Try to build a small but complete example document which shows us the problem.

[jeffsrad]

Thanks for the reply.

(1) Regarding your first suggestion, do you mean I can add an un-numbered figure with a caption right below it without using the \begin{figure}...\caption{...} end{figure} code?
If yes, please give me a sample code that shows how this could be done?

(2) Here is the error message that I get from the compiler as soon as I add \usepackage{caption} at the end of all my other packages in my main.tex file.

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! Undefined control sequence.
\setstretch ...ef \baselinestretch {#1}\@currsize
l.108 ...ite{2011:YunYe_Cao:StatisticalModeling}.}

Is this helpful deciphering the issue?
Thanks.