How to reduce caption size in all numbers

Question

I want the captions of my shapes and tables to be the same size as \ footnotesize. Is there anything that can be done in the preamble of my document?

Answer 1

Use caption package to set font to footnotesize :

 \documentclass{article} \usepackage{caption} \captionsetup{font=footnotesize} \begin{document} Some regular text set in \verb|\normalsize|. \begin{table}[t] \caption{A table using \texttt{\string\footnotesize}.} \end{table} \begin{figure}[t] \caption{A figure using \texttt{\string\footnotesize}.} \end{figure} \end{document} 

It is also possible to customize labels and text formats for figure and table separately. However, consistency is the best option here.