When i add a caption, for example a figure number, I exclude the caption name from the text. So figure 1 will be 1. When I add a reference to this figure in the text, the number 1 appears in the text. This is fine. However, if I add text in front of the figure caption, for example:

figure number 1: blahblah

the reference automatically looks like this:
---------------------------------------------
figure number 1
---------------------------------------------
So everything that is typed in front of a caption is also put in the reference in the text. I want to avoid this, I want to see the number only in the reference. Does anyone have any idea how to do this?