# table - error: Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr

I get an error message for a table. Strange thing is that I already have a similar table in my file, and thereby I don't get an error message... Can someone help me out?

The table is the following:

\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering
\caption{Impact on Trade Balance, in million US \\$ change from base}
\scalebox{1}{
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
\hline\hline
\multicolumn{4}{l}{Scenario A} \\
\hline

& EFTA & CA & ROW   \\[-10pt]
&      &        &          \\

Non-Agriculture & 3.1598 & -3.9787 & 1.0283    \\

Agriculture &  -1.9159 & 3.2666 & -2.0655   \\

Services & -1.8677 & 0.3535 & 2.01962   \\\cline{2-12}

Total & -0.6238 & -0.3586 & 0.9824 \\

\hline
\multicolumn{4}{l}{Scenario B} \\
\hline

Non-Agriculture & 2.5389 & -3.0276 & 0.6769   \\

Agriculture &  -1.0801 & 1.9608 & -1.2893 \\

Services & -1.8290 & 0.7192 & 1.3302  \\\cline{2-12}

Total & -0.3702 & -0.3476 & 0.7178  \\

\hline\hline
\end{tabular}}
\caption*{\scriptsize{Source: RunGTAP.}}
\end{table}


The error message is the following:

! Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr.
<template> \endtemplate
l.2510 \end{tabular}}

You have given more \span or & marks than there were
in the preamble to the \halign or \valign now in progress.

• Why there is \scalebox{1} and many empty lines? May 13 '15 at 17:52
• the \scalebox function allows us to manually scale the table if it is, for instance, too wide and doesn't fit on one A4 page.... the function is getting closed with a bracket after \end{tabular} ... May 13 '15 at 21:33

The code

\cline{2-12}


requests a horizontal rule to span from column 2 through to column 12. However, you only have a 4-column tabular since you've used

\begin{tabular}{lccc}


You're probably interested in using \cline{2-4}.

• oh man!!!! you made my day... I've been looking for errors the whole day and couldn't find anything... maybe because I'm looking at too many tables and numbers. I somehow lost the overview!!! but you saved me!! thank you very much @Werner May 13 '15 at 17:33