# Multirow & multicolumn problem

How do I take out that little vertical line underneath "this"??? Where do i have to fix it? Also how to adjust spacing between the rows?



\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multirow}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{ |c|c|c|c|c|c|c | }
\cline{1-7}
\multirow{3}{*}{State} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{\multirow{2}{*}{this}} & \multicolumn{4}{c|}{This work  } \\
\cline {4-7}
{ } & {} & {} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{real} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{complex} \\
\cline{2-7}
{} & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6\\
\cline{1-7}
$2$ & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
$2$ & 1 & 5 & 2 & 5 & 2 & 5 \\
\cline{1-7}
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}
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To get rid of the vertical line below "this" you just put \multicolumn2{c|}{} into the second line of your tabular environment.

Having said this, there are good typographical reasons not to use vertical rules in your tables at all: see the booktabs manual for a discussion of this issue. For these reasons I recommend removing all of the vertical rules from your table. For comparison, here is your table together with a second version that uses horizontal rules from booktabs:

Of course, you should use whichever version you think is better!

Here is the updated MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{ |c|c|c|c|c|c|c | }
\cline{1-7}
\multirow{3}{*}{States} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{\multirow{2}{*}{this}} & \multicolumn{4}{c|}{This work  } \\
\cline {4-7}
{ } & \multicolumn2{c|}{} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{real-range} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{complex-range} \\
\cline{2-7}
{} & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6\\
\cline{1-7}
$2^{-}$ & 0.798 & 0.648 & 0.74 & 0.59 & 0.78 & 0.60 \\
$2^{-}$ & 1.27 & 5.57 & 2.10 & 5.82 & 2.05 & 5.60 \\
\cline{1-7}
\end{tabular}

\bigskip

\begin{tabular}{ *7c }\toprule
\multirow{3}{*}{States} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\multirow{2}{*}{This}} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{This work  } \\
\cmidrule {4-7}
& & & \multicolumn{2}{c}{real-range} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{complex-range} \\
\midrule
& 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6\\
\midrule
$2^{-}$ & 0.798 & 0.648 & 0.74 & 0.59 & 0.78 & 0.60 \\
$2^{-}$ & 1.27 & 5.57 & 2.10 & 5.82 & 2.05 & 5.60 \\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

The advantage of the booktabs macros \toprule, \midrule, \cmidrule and \bottomrule, over the standard \hline and \cline, is that they have slightly different widths.

• Oh god thank you so much! I was trying to fix/add some stuff as you advised. Will post full mini examples from now on. Have a good day :) – Bell Sep 22 '16 at 4:06
• @Mico Thanks, you're right of course. I've taken them out. – user30471 Sep 22 '16 at 5:24
• I would take rid of \multirow altogether; there's no point in making such a stair-shaped pattern if you adopt booktabs rules; probably there should be a \cmidrule(lr){2-3} below “This”, which also requires \cmidrule(l){4-7} below “This work”. – egreg Sep 22 '16 at 9:35