Continuous table numbering problem

Question

I have the following problem:

I'm writing an article. I wrote text, then inserted a table. The first table is labeled as Table I with the caption command. I also have, for instance, two other tables in the Appendix, which are labeled as Table 2 and Table 3.

However, when I insert a table into the text again, it labels the second table in the text as Table 2 and not as Table 4? Unfortunately, the number of tables is not continuously. How can I fix this?

Edit:

Here is an example, where my problem is:

Till now, everything is fine, now, i want to add another table in the text, and i get this:

I would like to have that the second table in the text is labeled as Table 4 and not as Table 2.

Here u can find my latex code for it:

\usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}

\section{Introduction}

Text......
\begin{table}[htbp]
  \centering
  \caption{Table A}
    \begin{tabular}{l}
    \toprule
    A \\
    \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
  \label{tab:addlabel}
\end{table}

\noindent
Text....

% Table generated by Excel2LaTeX from sheet 'Tabelle1'
\begin{table}[htbp]
  \centering
  \caption{D}
    \begin{tabular}{l}
    \toprule
    D \\
    \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}%
  \label{tab:addlabel}%
\end{table}%


\section{Appendix}
\subsection{Tables}

\begin{table}[htbp]
  \centering
  \caption{A and B}
    \begin{tabular}{ll}
    \toprule
    A     & B \\
    \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
  \label{tab:addlabel}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[h!]
  \centering
  \caption{A, B and C}
    \begin{tabular}{lll}
    \toprule
    A     & B     & C \\
    \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
  \label{tab:addlabel}
\end{table}



\end{document}

Answer 1

It seems that you want to number the tables out of order. That is a strange requirement but simply avoid using latex's automatic numbering, either by not using \caption or by using the unnumbered \caption* and then add numbers by hand as part of the caption text.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{caption,booktabs}
\setcounter{totalnumber}{5}

\begin{document}

\section{Introduction}

Text......

\begin{table}[htbp]
  \centering
  \caption*{Table 1: Table A}
    \begin{tabular}{l}
    \toprule
    A \\
    \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
  \label{tab:addlabelzzzz}
\end{table}

\noindent
Text....

% Table generated by Excel2LaTeX from sheet 'Tabelle1'
\begin{table}[htbp]
  \centering
  \caption*{Table 4: D}
    \begin{tabular}{l}
    \toprule
    D \\
    \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}%
  \label{tab:addlabelzzz}%
\end{table}%


\section{Appendix}
\subsection{Tables}

\begin{table}[htbp]
  \centering
  \caption*{Table 2: A and B}
    \begin{tabular}{ll}
    \toprule
    A     & B \\
    \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
  \label{tab:addlabelzz}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[htp]% dont use [h!]
  \centering
  \caption*{Table 3: A, B and C}
    \begin{tabular}{lll}
    \toprule
    A     & B     & C \\
    \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
  \label{tab:addlabelz}
\end{table}



\end{document}