Appendix uniform Figure numbering

Question

I'm currently working on my Thesis and I am trying to get my Appendix sorted. here is my Appendix code:

\renewcommand{\figurename}{Appendix}
\renewcommand{\tablename}{Appendix}
\setcounter{figure}{0}
\setcounter{table}{0}
\renewcommand\thefigure{\thesection.\roman{figure}}  
\renewcommand\thetable{\thesection.\roman{table}} 
\pagestyle{plain}
\pagenumbering{Roman}
\setcounter{page}{1}

Currently it is producing Figure titles like so;

Appendix 5.i:

And treats tables and figures separately, which I would like to avoid. Ideally, I'd like an appendix with continuous numbering despite tables or figures.

Any idea how to do that?
Thanks in advance

Welcome to TeX.SE. Please tell us a bit more about the (desired) structure of the appendix material. E.g., does this material consist mainly (exclusively?) of tables and figures? Since you're resetting both \figurename and \tablename, is there even a point in using both figure and table environments? Put differently, why not use just table (or figure) environments? Please advise. — Mico, Jul 03 '18 at 10:52
Off-topic: the \pagenumbering instruction resets the page counter variable; no need to issue a separate \setcounter{page}{1} instruction. — Mico, Jul 03 '18 at 10:55
Hi,thanks for the quick response, I am using both Figure (pictures) and Table environments. — Maria, Jul 03 '18 at 11:37
Even simpler, use either figure or table but not both. The only difference between figure and table is the caption. — John Kormylo, Jul 03 '18 at 13:44
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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 03 '18 at 11:49

If the table and figure counters are supposed to move together, it's best to make one counter a duplicate of the other. This may be achieved, e.g., with the \dupcntr macro provided in this answer provided by Martin Scharrer.

\documentclass{article}
\renewcommand{\figurename}{Appendix}
\renewcommand{\tablename}{Appendix}
\setcounter{figure}{0}
\setcounter{table}{0}
\renewcommand\thefigure{\thesection.\roman{figure}}  
\renewcommand\thetable{\thesection.\roman{table}} 
\pagestyle{plain}
\pagenumbering{Roman}
%\setcounter{page}{1} %% not needed

%% see https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/33901/5001
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\dupcntr}[2]{%
    \expandafter\let\csname c@#1\expandafter\endcsname\csname c@#2\endcsname
}
\makeatother
\dupcntr{table}{figure}  % make one counter the duplicate of the other

\begin{document}

\appendix
\refstepcounter{section} % just for this example

\begin{table}[ht!]\caption{Table A}\label{tab:a}\end{table}
\begin{table}[ht!]\caption{Table B}\label{tab:b}\end{table}
\begin{figure}[ht!]\caption{Figure A}\label{fig:a} \end{figure}
\begin{figure}[ht!]\caption{Figure B}\label{fig:b} \end{figure}
\begin{table}[ht!]\caption{Table C}\label{tab:x}\end{table}

\end{document}

Appendix uniform Figure numbering

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