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From: flowers@memstvx1.memst.edu (Harry Flowers)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Table Reference Number are not Unique
Message-ID: <1991May22.110347.52@memstvx1.memst.edu>
Date: 22 May 91 17:03:47 GMT
References: <1991May22.152713.1560@eplrx7.uucp>
Organization: Memphis State University
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In article <1991May22.152713.1560@eplrx7.uucp>, cristy@eplrx7.uucp
 (John Cristy) writes:
> I have 5 tables in my document (documentstyle{article}.  After I run
> latex, the table captions show the tables as Table 1, Table 2, etc.
> But in the references (\ref{table.1}) the reference numbers are
> all the same, 3.3.  For example, one line should read
> 
>   Tables 2 and 3 illustrate...
> 
> but instead reads
> 
>   Tables 3.3 and 3.3 illustrate...
> 
> The tex portions is
> 
>   Tables \ref{table.2} and \ref{table.3}...
> 
> Any ideas?  Please Email you response.  And thanks in advance.

Sounds like you've got your \label's outside of your begin/end table
statements.  Instead, they get the section number (3.3 in this case)
in which they appear.  Move them inside the table environment.

I tried email, but our UUCP gateway doesn't route through mail anymore :-(

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