# Missing $inserted When I use this code I get the ! Missing$ inserted.<inserted text>$R and ! Missing$ inserted.<inserted text>\bottomrule errors on the 3rd and 4th last lines. How can I fix my code so that those errors go away? \documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{tabularx,amsmath,boxedminipage,graphicx} \usepackage[margin=1in,letterpaper]{geometry} % this shaves off default margins which are too big \usepackage{cite} \usepackage[final]{hyperref} % adds hyper links inside the generated pdf file \usepackage{booktabs} % for better looking tables \usepackage{siunitx} % for units of measure and data in tables \hypersetup{ colorlinks=true, % false: boxed links; true: colored links linkcolor=blue, % color of internal links citecolor=blue, % color of links to bibliography filecolor=magenta, % color of file links urlcolor=blue } \begin{document} \begin{tabular}{ l % left aligned column l % left aligned column *{2}{S[table-format=4.0]} % three columns with numeric data } \toprule &\textbf{Method 1} & \textbf{Method 2}\\ \midrule Run 1 &345 \pm 1$&$235 \pm 3$\\ Run 2 &$465 \pm 2$&$342 \pm 4\\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \end{document}  • Welcome to TeX.SX! Please make your code compilable (if possible), or at least complete it with \documentclass{...}, the required \usepackage's, \begin{document}, and \end{document}. That may seem tedious to you, but think of the extra work it represents for TeX.SX users willing to give you a hand. Help them help you: remove that one hurdle between you and a solution to your problem. – jub0bs May 11 '14 at 17:59 • Thank you @Jubobs, I have updated my post to include the necessary code. – raindrop May 11 '14 at 18:02 ## 2 Answers First of all, you've added two l columns before the data columns, but as far as I can see you're using just one. Second, let siunitx do all the work in S columns, so don't add the dollar signs. By default siunitx show the uncertainty as a number in parenthesis (see screenshot below). This can of course be changed, as you see in Svend Tveskæg's answer. \documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{tabularx,amsmath,boxedminipage,graphicx} \usepackage[margin=1in,letterpaper]{geometry} % this shaves off default margins which are too big \usepackage{cite} \usepackage[final]{hyperref} % adds hyper links inside the generated pdf file \usepackage{booktabs} % for better looking tables \usepackage{siunitx} % for units of measure and data in tables \hypersetup{ colorlinks=true, % false: boxed links; true: colored links linkcolor=blue, % color of internal links citecolor=blue, % color of links to bibliography filecolor=magenta, % color of file links urlcolor=blue } \begin{document} \begin{tabular}{ l % left aligned column *{2}{S} % three columns with numeric data } \toprule &\textbf{Method 1} & \textbf{Method 2}\\ \midrule Run 1 & 345 \pm 1 & 235 \pm 3\\ Run 2 & 465 \pm 2 & 342 \pm 4\\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \end{document}  Here is a possible solution: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{booktabs} \begin{document} \begin{tabular}{lcc} \toprule &\textbf{Method~1} & \textbf{Method~2}\\ \midrule Run~1 &345 \pm 1$&$235 \pm 3$\\ Run~2 &$465 \pm 2$&$342 \pm 4\$      \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}

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Update

Here is another way of doing it using the powerful siunitx package:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{siunitx}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{l *{2}{S[separate-uncertainty, table-format = 3, table-figures-uncertainty = 1]}}
\toprule
&\textbf{Method~1} & \textbf{Method~2}\\
\midrule
Run~1 & 345 \pm 1        & 235 \pm 3        \\
Run~2 & 465 \pm 2        & 342 \pm 4        \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

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