Different type of captions

Question

I have four tables. The first table has a caption of Table A: Title. The other three tables have captions of Table 1: Title, Table 2: Title, and Table 3: Title.

When I use

 \caption{Title}

it gives me Table 1: Title, Table 2, Table 3, and Table 4, but I don't want this format.

Answer 1

You need to change the numbering to Alph for the first table, and then change it back to arabic. In addition, you need to step the table counter back by one, so that you don't get table A followed by table 2.

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\renewcommand\thetable{\Alph{table}}
%
\begin{table}
\centering\rule{2cm}{2cm} %Replace with tabular
\caption{The first}
\end{table}
%
\addtocounter{table}{-1}
\renewcommand\thetable{\arabic{table}}
%
\begin{table}
\centering\rule{2cm}{2cm} %Replace with tabular
\caption{The second}
\end{table}
%
\begin{table}
\centering\rule{2cm}{2cm} %Replace with tabular
\caption{The third}
\end{table}
\end{document}