Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Tables and Figures in Appendix

[Iqarius]

Hello Latex Community,
i am relatively new to Latex and was wondering if its possible to have tables and figures in the Appendix, but instead of the normal number in the caption it would be a letter and a number. For example it would read as: "Figure A1: example caption" or "Tables A1: example caption" ans so on. And is it possible if I want to reference something in the Appendix in my normal text i would also show up as A1?

Kind regards and thanks for any help
-Iqarius

[rais]

Given the right class, that is, one that supports chapters like book or report, what you want is almost what you'd get, anyway:

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\documentclass{report}
\renewcommand*\thefigure{\thechapter\arabic{figure}}
\begin{document}
\chapter{foo}
see \ref{fig:sample}
\appendix
\chapter{Figures and such}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\fbox{sample}
\caption{sample fig}
\label{fig:sample}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

If you leave out the line with the \renewcommand you'll see the default (A.1 instead of A1)

KR
Rainer