How to replace 'subsubsection' with just 'section' whilst using autoref package?

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I am using the autoref package to make labelling of sections, figures and graphs much easier, and it really is much easier. However, when I am referring to a particular subsubsection, I just want it to appear in the final document as section 3.1.1 yet it appears to render as subsubsection 3.1.1.

How do I disable the usage of subsubsection X.Y.Z and just have it say section instead?

Does this answer your question? What's the difference between \ref and \autoref? — steve, Apr 24 '20 at 23:20
It probably depends on whether you are using babel. Look for \autorefname in the hyperref manual and the example about \subsectionautorefname (page 20 in my version of the manual, from January 2020). — frougon, Apr 24 '20 at 23:22

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 25 '20 at 17:35

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According to the manual (page 18 in my 2019 version) use

\renewcommand{\subsubsectionname}{section}

answered Apr 25 '20 at 17:35

Peter Wilson

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No, this didn't work. I'm getting all sorts of errors about how the command is not defined. – Hamish Gibson Apr 26 '20 at 12:12

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 26 '20 at 12:45

The above answer did not help, I instead receieved several errors saying that the \subsubsectionname had not been defined. I instead solved it by using the following :

\usepackage[english]{babel} \renewcommand{\sectionautorefname}{Section} \renewcommand{\subsectionautorefname}{Section} \renewcommand{\subsubsectionautorefname}{Section}

This renamed all subsubsection usage in the document.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 16 '22 at 08:10

Let me just add that this capitalizes Section x.x.x but maybe that was intended.

Another workaround is:

\renewcommand{\sectionautorefname}{Section}
\let\subsectionautorefname\sectionautorefname
\let\subsubsectionautorefname\sectionautorefname

This way you only need to specify the name once as sub and subsub follow suite.

How to replace 'subsubsection' with just 'section' whilst using autoref package?

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