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How to diagonally divide a table cell … properly?

There have been many threads discussing solutions to the task of drawing a diagonal line in a table cell. There are also two packages to do this, slashbox and the better looking makecell with its \...
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How to vertically AND left-align a cell with \makecell?

I am writing a table with the \makecell package, and I am able to left-align the makecell text with the command: \makecell[l]{here is \\ my text \\ in the cell} I can also top-align the text with: \...
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Table coloring doesn't extend all the way with makecell

This issue occurs while using xcolor to alternate the table color, while also using makecell to put multiple lines in a table cell. In this specific scenario, where a larger cell is in a colored line, ...
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\makecell align does not work?

In the docs of the makecell package in Section 1.1 it stated that one can align text horizontally to the top or bottom with \makecell[t]{..} and \makecell[b]{..}. I tried that with \documentclass{...
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colortbl's \cellcolor not filling whole cell in combination with \makecell

I want to color some cells of a table, some of which use \makecell. The problem I run into is that not the whole width of the \makecell cells is filled by the color. MWE: \documentclass{article} \...
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Size of the Rotated Table Cells

I want to create a custom table with tabularray package. I have used makecell and rotating packages to rotate some of the table cells. Additionally, the length of the rotated cells are set with \...
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Why does \makecell's vertical alignment option affect another cell rather than itself?

I'm puzzled by the behavior of \makecell (from the makecell package) when given a vertical alignment option (such as [t] or [b]). It appears that the specified option doesn't affect the vertical ...
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\makecell in the header: how to get rid of the space after the last column of the table?

This table is perfect for me except for the space left at the end: How can I eliminate it? @{} doesn't work! \documentclass[british]{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} \...
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Issue combining makecell and cellcolor

I have seen similar question to this one already but none of the answers I have found seem to solve my problem. I'm trying to color the cells of the first column of my table, but I cannot find a ...
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With makecell the text dimension is reduced

I added the makecell package in order to insert a line break within a column of tabular environment. Everything perfect and smooth except for the shrinkage of the text dimension: \documentclass[...
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makecell package vertical centering of vertical text

I'm using makecell package to write vertical text to my table cells. It works fine, but I have trouble centering it. Normal vertical text (within a {tabular}) is displayed as: \rothead{Some ...
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styling nline cells

The number line command \nline from the makecell package inserts n cells with a pattern containing an incrementing number. I'd like to treat those as headers, styled with \theadfont and \theadalign. I ...
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Misaligned cells using makecell and xtabular

First a minimal example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{makecell} \usepackage{xtab} \newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{#1}} \begin{document} \begin{xtabular}{|p{0.65cm}||C{0....
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How to get automatic line-breaks using tabularx and makecell?♀

I'm using the tabularx and makecell packages for the aesthetics of my tables. I used the X column type for columns with long texts and \makecell{...} for line-breaks into the cells. But when I try to ...
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Table cell line break, and rowcolors

This question is about three things: Making forced line break in a cell Combining above with \rowcolors Combining above with vertical lines 1.This is obviously a common problem, since I have read ...
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Combining diagonal table cell lines with minimum row clearance

So, yeah, it just never ends I guess. I'm fully aware that the following table is not exactly going to win an award for its stunning beauty no matter what. But the most important problem is that in ...
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Color issue with the combination of the longtable, rowcolor, and makecell

I am trying to add a list of elements into a longtable cell. I have tried several solutions and the only one that has proved really applicable is the one I present in the following MWE. The main ...
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Coloring a line of a table

I try to color only the first line of the table below, using the code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{makecell} \usepackage{hhline} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage{colortbl} \usepackage{tabularx} ...
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makecell alters vertical alignment across table row

Consider this example: \documentclass{report} \usepackage{makecell} \usepackage{lipsum} \begin{document} \begin{tabular}{p{3cm}p{3cm}} \lipsum[1][1] & \lipsum[1][2-4]\\ \lipsum[1][5] & \...
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Set \bottomrule of two uneven tables to same height

I have two parallel tables not equal in height. I'd like to set \bottomrule of the shorter left table to the same height as the right one. Is this even possible without rearranging the rows? Using \...
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Align column in table on Plus/minus symbol with values of varying length and align header of first column with data?

I would like the data in the "Confidence Limit" column to align on the plus/minus symbol. Here is a link to a similar but different question Aligning +- sign in table. However, the values in my data ...
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How to color column heads determined width makecell

In my answer to question How do I repeat the first table row on every page using longtable inside of tcolorbox? I suggest to (between others) to use makecell package to define head of table and ...
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How to remove extra vertical space in a table cell bordering makecell

MWE: \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage[a4paper]{geometry} \geometry{tmargin=2cm,bmargin=2cm,lmargin=2cm,rmargin=2cm} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{tabularx, makecell} \setlength{\...
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Get makecell thead to emulate font size of table environment?

I have a table defined like this: \begin{table}[] \tiny It contains a table header in bold with a line break between words. \textbf{\thead{word1 \\ word2}} I added this to my pre-amble as per this ...
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Colored tables with booktabs, makecell and cellspace

While experimenting with different table-packages, I realised, that each package basically stands for itself and often lacks in compatibility with other great packages. So I tried to create a table ...
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Diagonal cell division with tikz figure on same row and into `X` column from longtabu

MWE (with full package list) \documentclass[english, bibliography=totoc]{scrreprt} %%% PAGE DIMENSIONS \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{verbose,a4paper,tmargin=3.5cm,bmargin=2.5cm,lmargin=2.6cm,...
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How to add a hyperlink to a multiline element in a table, which uses makecell?

I've an existing table in LaTeX (for my resume), which uses makecell package to produce the formatted output in multiple lines for each entry. Example of one row: 2007 & \makecell[c] {Bachelor of ...
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How to color rows when using makecell?

I'd like to color the rows of a table to make it easy readable. Some cells have multiple lines, so I use the makecell package, and planned to use the xcolor for coloring, but they are clashing. Sample ...
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Using \multirow and \makecell

I am trying to make a table which has in total 4 rows (1 tittle + 3 data). In one column, which contains the same information for all 3 rows, I decided to use \multirow. In this multicolumn I would ...
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Bad vertical distance in table using makecell package \multirowhead

This is my working code: \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage{multirow} \usepackage{hhline} \usepackage{array} \usepackage{caption} \usepackage{tabu} \...
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how to make cellcolor not fill the cell completely

\documentclass[]{article} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,amsfonts,amssymb} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{floatrow} \...
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How to use \thead with left align locally instead of globally?

How to align the contents of the \thead cell to the right? \documentclass[12pt]{memoir} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage{makecell} \begin{document} \begin{tabular}{|c|} \thead{Content \\ ...
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align text in a tabu-table top-left without tricks

I use tabu and makecell to create tables and their content. As many other people I want to align cell content top-left. There are a lot of postings about that topic (with different table environments) ...
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Automatic line break in tabularx environment

I'm trying to get a table that automatically inserts a line-break so some very long text can fit in the cell, instead of overflowing to the margins like it's doing now. I tried with \makecell but didn'...
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How to Solve Error With Square [] Brackets on New Line in Header [duplicate]

In the table below, if I move the units in the square brackets to the next line in the header (e.g. [mg/g] on a new line), I get an error. However, if I use curved () brackets instead, there is no ...
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how do set table body math parts in different font

How do set the table body math part only different font using XeLaTeX. My MWE is: \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} \usepackage[margin=1in, showframe, nomarginpar]{geometry} \...
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How to achieve a centered header over right-aligned columns of numbers when the header is long relative to the width of the column of numbers

I have difficulties to produce a relatively wided centered header entry over a relatively narrow column of right-aligned numbers. The other way around it works fine with the makecell package as shown ...
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Is it possible to create a command with another command, passing code as a string?

I want to loop through a list and print some text. The placement of that text is inside a table, inside a \makecell command. I could hard-code the items from the list I want, including some \\ ...
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rowcolor doesn't fill complete cell

So I'm trying to color the rows in my table, but in the rows where I use \makecell, the colouring doesn't work properly. Somebody knows a solution for this? \usepackage{xcolor, colortbl} %kleurtjes ...
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Wrapping text with multirow [duplicate]

I'm working with a long table in and I'm having some issues with the it. I can't wrap the text in the last column, which uses multicolumn. Therefore, the text goes out of margins. Here's my code: \...
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progressbar with overlay text

I need to display the actual percentage value as an overlay to a progressbar. As you can see in the MWE, the only thing I get is to move it below the bar, but I want it inside the bar. Is this even ...
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Makecell: Declare default alignment in \usepackage[]

I want to load the makecell package with a default option to make all \makecell cells left-aligned by default. What should I substitute in for OPTIONS below to make left-alignment the default behavior ...
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How to vertically align the contents of cells in NiceTabular?

I am trying to to vertically align cells contents in NiceTabular when they get significantly different heights. However, \adjustbox and makecell do not seem to work (neither does \adjustbox and \Block)...
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rowcolor uneffective in longtable with makecell [duplicate]

I'm trying to color the rows of a longtable with rowcolor as follow (in the MWE I have onyl included few rows of the very long table): \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage[fontsize=8pt]{...
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Even vertical distribution of lines in a multiline cell

I am trying to create a figure which has two or three photos on the right and text on the left. What I want is for the text on the left to be equally spread across the height of the cell (equal to the ...
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Using makecell in tabu: incompatibility with the packages tcolorbox and todonotes

I have a problem when using the package tabu with makecell and tcolorbox and todonotes. This is my minimal example code: \documentclass[a4paper]{scrreprt} \usepackage{tcolorbox} \usepackage{todonotes}...
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Top & left alignment with \makecell in tabular

I'm struggling to make a specific cell (4th column) top and left aligned. Not too sure why \makecell is not co-operating but here's my latex code: \documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage[...
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How to change table background headers color on multiple pages by this code

change the color of the background of the header to blue, not the header font color. thank you in advance \begin{document} \pagestyle{plain} \lipsum[1-5] %\pagestyle{empty} \begin{landscape} % ...
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\usepackage{makecell} is declared, but \makecell is not defined

In my preamble, I declared: ... \usepackage{cite} \usepackage{color} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{caption} \usepackage{float} \usepackage{array} \usepackage{makecell} \usepackage{multirow} \...
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\makecell with typeface and line break

I'm having a bit of trouble using typefaces like \textbf or \spacedlowsmallcaps in \makecells with line breaks. The following code works: \begin{table} \centering \begin{tabular}{lcc} \...
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