How to get \ref to automatically output Table, Appendix etc.?

Question

When I use \ref my output is just the number of the table or letter of the appendix. So for example in my MWE below when I enter See \ref{Test1} my output is See 1.1 and for See \ref{AppendixA} output is See A.

Is there a way to have the output to be See Table 1.1 and See Appendix A?

\documentclass[11pt, a4paper, oneside, oldfontcommands]{memoir}
\usepackage{lipsum} % just for dummy text

\begin{document}
\chapter{This is a test chapter}
hello there, please see \ref{AppendixA}

\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ll}
Test & Table \\
1    & 2     \\
3    &      
\end{tabular}
\caption{Test Table}
\label{Test1}
\end{table}
\lipsum[1] Please see \ref{Test1}

\appendix
\chapter{This is a test Appendix} % Main appendix title
\label{AppendixA} % For referencing this appendix elsewhere, use \ref{AppendixA}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

Possible duplicates: How to get more complete references; How to cross-reference theorems with “Theorem”?; Using section sign (§) for cross-references to sections. Biggest suggestion here is to add hyperref and use \autoref instead of just \ref. — Werner, Jun 16 '15 at 19:17
@Werner Indeed duplicates, can't believe I missed them after about an hour of looking through questions!. Thanks for the \autoreftip. Using hyperrefpackage already so that is handy. — gman, Jun 17 '15 at 09:28

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 16 '15 at 19:34

There are several packages which can achieve this, cleveref seems to be the most advanced and most customizable one.

At least if the chapter in their documentation fits:

Given how useful automated cross-reference typesetting is, there are naturally a number of other LaTeX packages with similar goals to cleveref, most notably varioref, fancyref, hyperref’s \autoref command, and (for theorem-like environments) ntheorem with the thref option. (There are many others, but these come closest to providing similar features to cleveref.) However, all have certain deficiencies which cleveref attempts to overcome.

If you want to use cleveref for the start just replace your \ref commands with \cref.

Important note: cleveref should be the last package you load, even after hyperref

\documentclass[11pt, a4paper, oneside, oldfontcommands]{memoir}
\usepackage{lipsum} % just for dummy text

%% All you packages here

\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{cleveref}

\begin{document}
\chapter{This is a test chapter}
hello there, please see \cref{AppendixA}

\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ll}
Test & Table \\
1    & 2     \\
3    &      
\end{tabular}
\caption{Test Table}
\label{Test1}
\end{table}
\lipsum[1] Please see \cref{Test1}

\appendix
\chapter{This is a test Appendix} % Main appendix title
\label{AppendixA} % For referencing this appendix elsewhere, use \ref{AppendixA}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

How to get \ref to automatically output Table, Appendix etc.?

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