Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ How to number floats in LaTeX consistently?

[martinoshea]

Hello

I have a LaTeX document where I'd like the numbering of floats (tables and figures) to be in one numeric sequence from 1 to x rather than two sequences according to their type. I'm not using lists of figures or tables either and do nort need to.

My documentclass is report and typically my floats have captions like this:

\caption{Breakdown of visualisations created.}
\label{tab:Visualisation_By_Types}

I think this can be done with a counter or stepcounter.

Can anyone advise?

Thanks

Mr Morgan

[josephwright]

You could just use one of either the figure or table environments, and alter the definition of \caption to miss out the "Figure" or "Table" part (using the caption package).