Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ caption name in reference?

[wwoord]

Hey all,

I've spend a few hours searching the internet for an answer, but have been unsuccessful. I'm hoping somebody here can help me out, I'm sure somebody else must have looked in to this before....

So my question is:
is it possible to get the caption name in the reference when referring to a figure or table? Right now, each time I refer to a figure I have to write

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Figure~\ref{mylabel}

I'm hoping I can just write

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\ref{mylabel}

But get the caption name, in this case Figure added automatically. This is especially convenient if later on you want to change the caption name for example from Figure to Fig. or Image.

Many thanks for any help!

Cheers,

Walter

[localghost]

Use the cleveref package.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[wwoord]

Thank you so much for the solution and the welcome. I'll look in to it straight away and hopefully I can also contribute to this board.

Cheers,

Walter