How to hide the number of a table, whilst keeping it in the list of tables

Question

I want the caption of one of my tables to say only Table, without the number. Caption* did not seem to work.

Also, I still I want it to appear in the list of tables. Is there any way to do that?

Answer 1

Package caption provides a star form of \caption as in longtable, where the star form suppresses the numbering and the entry in the table of contents.

The entry for the list of tables can be added via \addcontentsline{lot}{table}{...}. Example, which also supports hyperref:

\documentclass{article}
% \usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{caption}% for star form: \caption*

\begin{document}
  \listoftables

  \section{My section}
  The beautiful table can be found on page \pageref{fig:my}.

 \begin{table}[hpb]
    \csname phantomsection\endcsname % anchor, if hyperref is loaded
    \centering
    \fbox{My beautiful table}
    \caption*{My table caption}
    \label{fig:my}
    \addcontentsline{lot}{table}{My table caption}
  \end{table}
\end{document}