I'm using the IEEEtran class. By default, this class will make figure captions lowercase, left-justified, and will make table captions uppercase, center-justified. I don't like this style as it makes long table captions very difficult to read. So I'm trying to force table captions to be lowercase, left-justified.

Based on [this answer](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/166846/155760) to a question on Tex StackExchange, I've been able to make the table captions lowercase using the code posted below. 

**How do I make the table captions lowercase and left-justified?**

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*Code to make table captions lowercase:*
```
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\@makecaption}
  {\scshape}
  {}
  {}
  {}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\@makecaption}
  {\\}
  {.\ }
  {}
  {}
\makeatother
\def\tablename{Table}
```

---

*Minimal working example:*

```
\documentclass{IEEEtran}

\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}

\title{Test}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\begin{figure}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics{test}
\caption{This is a figure.}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[!t]
\caption{This is a table.}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c||c|}
\hline
One & Two\\
\hline
Three & Four\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\end{document}
```