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I want every second column in my table to have a shading for improved readability. I have used the xcolor package \usepackage[table]{xcolor} using the command \cellcolor[gray]{0.9}. It works, but it messes with the grid lines and looks absolutely unprofessional. Is there a better way?

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  • As always on the site you are more likely to get help if you provide something that others can test
    – daleif
    Jun 16, 2020 at 10:45
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    you can look at tikz tables, or I usually recommend not having rules and coloured backgrounds at the same time, do you really need both?
    – David Carlisle
    Jun 16, 2020 at 10:56
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    if it's the whole column why not \columncolor rather than \cellcolor ? neither in fact should affect the rules in any way although you may see some artefacts at some zoom levels in some viewers.
    – David Carlisle
    Jun 16, 2020 at 10:59

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With {NicaTabular} of nicematrix (≥ 4.0 2020-05-08), we have tools to color cells, rows and columns before the rules are drawn. The rules won't vanish in the PDF viewers at some levels of zoom.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{nicematrix}
\begin{document}


\begin{NiceTabular}{C|C|C}%
  [code-before = \columncolor{red!15}{2}]
rosa          & lilium     & tulipa    \\
phaloaenopsis & dianthus   & freesia   \\
alstroemeria  & gladiolus  & narcissus \\
papaver       & helianthus & allium    \\
alyssum       & angelonia  & hibiscus  \\
hydrangea     & saporania  & sedum     \\
\end{NiceTabular}

\end{document}

Output of the above code

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  • In this answer, since version 5.0 of nicematrix one must write c|c|c instead of C|C|C in the preamble of {NiceTabular} (but there is an option for backward compatibility).
    – F. Pantigny
    Jul 18, 2020 at 20:45

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