Questions tagged [multicolumn]
{multicolumn} is for questions concerning the formatting of table cells that span several columns.
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Complex table (multicolumn within multirow) how to
I'm trying to construct a table that looks like the following:
I know I need to use multirow package in the tabular environment, but I can't figure out how since I couldn't find examples that are ...
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Aligning table-entries at \pm
I have a table with multiple columns, where the entries have uncertainties attached to them. Is it possible to align the entries at the \pm-sign?
\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[...
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Longtable - Need the cell's width but multicolumns resets \hspace and \linewidth. How can I do?
After hours of investigations, I could narrow-down an issue I have with tables to \multicolumn and what it does with \hspace and \linewidth.
As one can see in the MWE below, in a normal cell, both \...
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moderncv, using \cvskillentry twice in one row
Tried to shorten the moderncv template by putting two skillentries in one row with minipage and multicols. The two columns are not on the same height and there is currently an \hfill after ChemCAD ...
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Why are my multicolumn headings only contained in the rightmost column?
When using multicolumn, there is a problem that instead of the first row's headings spanning multiple columns, they appear to be only contained in the rightmost column of the multicolumn (see image ...
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How to center a table in the widetext envrionment of the template `revtex'?
I'd like to center a table in the the widetext envrionment of the template revtex, however it didn't work even if I use the command \centering, it also keep the twocolumns state. How can I make the ...
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tabularx - column width multicolumn
I'm trying to create a table using tabularx environment and I need to use multiple columns to reproduce the original Word template table. On the first picture is how the table should look and below is ...
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How can I column-break long solutions in the Exam class?
I want to be able to automatically break solutions when they cross column boundaries in my LaTeX code.
There is a great answer that answers my question for pagebreaks, but I specifically want to break ...
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Text in two columns is not the same level (IEEE journal)
I am a double-column journal using latex. The problem is that I want to remove this problem:
I mean I want both columns to end on the same level like this:
Please tell me what I should to do ? This ...
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Full page-width tabular overflows into margin when multicols is used
I am looking to create a table that always spans the full width of the page. The columns need to be 20% and 80% of the page's width, respectively. They need to be independent of \arrayrulewidth and \...
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csvsimple and \multispan ->\omit \@multispan
I want some cells in a table generated via CSV to be \multicolumn - it works fine as the 3rd row of the table, but if the 2nd row is \multicolumn, this will not compile. Compare using data1.csv (which ...
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Longtable: multicolumn with itemize environment does not work (error message)
I would like to merge the two columns ("Nanofiltration" and "Reverse Osmosis", see image) to one column for both cells and centered.
However, multicolumn does not work:
! LaTeX ...
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Tables with multicolumn lines
I'm trying to format a table with many columns such that the empty cells on each row have a continuous, coloured line through them.
I've tried adapting a multicolumn command with a rule command in it, ...
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How to set subcolumns of a column?
I'm making a table over different pages with the longtable package:
\begin{landscape}
\begin{longtable}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
\caption{Table noMCI.} \label{tab:long} \\
\hline
\multicolumn{1}{|c|}{\...
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adjust the width of table column
I'm trying to make the third column of this table wider, so any suggestions to adjust the third column for a better look?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=2cm,a4paper]{geometry} % set page ...
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Specifying the column width and centered vertical alignment of latex table
I have a table with multi-rows and columns. I need to specify the column width of some of the columns because the table is too wide for the page. But I can't find a way to do so and vertically center ...
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tcolorbox + multicols + tufte-book inserting unwanted paragraph breaks
There is some weird insertion and deletion of paragraph breaks in my boxes when using this combination of packages.
\documentclass[justified, nofonts, notitlepage, openany, debug]{tufte-book}
\...
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Title over multicolumn array and side-by-side arrays
I want to add in a presentation (beamer) 4 multicolumn (4 columns each) arrays side-by-side and give a title over each array. What I tried for my article was this
\documentclass[12pt]{extbook}
\...
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The caption is not spanning the entire width of the table
This is my latex code for a table. The caption is not spanning the entire width of the table. Can anyone help me fix it?
\begin{table}[!htp]
\centering
\caption{xxx}
\scriptsize
\begin{tabular}{...
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Table: combine fixed column width, \multicolumn, and text wrapping
I'm trying to create a sort of table which:
a) is the same width as my text,
b) has columns with predefined widths;
c) has cells which span over multiple columns; and
d) wraps text in these ...
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about drawing a multicolumn table with text fit cells
i will be grateful to help to deal with this. i'm trying this table in the figure attached but the text exceeds margins
here is my code:
\begin{table*}
\setlength\tabcolsep{3pt}
\begin{tabularx}{\...
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Aligning table entry (second column) vertically to first column
In the table I provided (picture) , some author names span two lines, which causes the corresponding formulas to not align in the middle. Ideally, when an author's name covers two lines, the formula ...
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Table editing tools
I was trying to create a double entry table but as I'm extremely new to Latex using the nicematrix/nicetabular packages seemed a bit daunting. I decided to try my luck messing around with the "...
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Space issue in table
I'm making several tables and I'm having troubles with this one (see the pic).
The code I made to get that output is this:
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[spanish,es-lcroman]{babel}
\...
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Lamport's rule for \multicolumn not valid?
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{r|r@{\,}l|}
1&2&300\\
10&-2&X\\
\multicolumn{2}{r@{\,}}{2}&\multicolumn{1}{l}{X}
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
According to ...
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Converting table from word to latex
I'm very new to overleaf and coding in general - I'm struggling quite a bit with the tables. My problem is I can't figure out how to transform this table (from Word) into LateX.
I know there is some ...
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Wrap text in table column with \textwidth, \multicolumn and \multirow in LaTeX
I'm looking to wrap the text in the 3rd column, so that the table doesn't render too small (and disproportionate) on my document. Here is my code:
\begin{table}[]
\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{\begin{...
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Using multicols, introduced by a subsection title, after a section heading leaves a blank page
Many articles on StackExchange show the same problem but none of the solutions works for me. I initialize a section environment and then a multicol environment, with a subsection header as an argument....
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Table in tabularray environment only shows text in first column after multicolumn cell
I am using the tabularray environment to create a multipage table (longtblr) with 6 columns.
After each entry in the table I want to add a row to summarize the entry.
It works for the first entry as ...
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How can I make the small cells expand all the way regardless of their number [duplicate]
What I want is this
This is my code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{nicematrix}
\begin{document}
\begin{NiceTabular}{lccccc}[hvlines,cell-space-limits=3pt]
\Block{4-1}{Expressiveness} & \...
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Trying to convert multi row table to multi row + multi column
I have this table
I'm trying to convert it to this
my code is this
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx} % Required for inserting images
\usepackage{tabularray}
\begin{document}
\begin{...
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Vertical line not extending all the way to top of the table in multicolumn [duplicate]
I have a table as follows (it is not complete; two columns are missing on the rows after the headers, but the issue is not there):
\begin{tabular}{c:ccccccc|cc}
\thickhline
& \multicolumn{7}{c|...
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Long table over several pages with right alignment and multiple columns
I'm trying to make a table with the following characteristics:
Able to break across pages
With right alignment of second column
Able to adjust line spacing
I've tried longtable and multicol but I ...
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Text alignment issues in a table
I have created a table using Tables Generator and managed to edit the resulting code to get what I want, yet I still have some issues that I cannot seem to solve after going through several questions ...
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Unwanted indent in multicolumn xltabular, incompatible packages?
Update : the problem has been solved by adding \shorthandoff{:} before and \shorthandon{:} after the xltabular environment (thank you Jasper). The issue was caused because of the use uf the french ...
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Extra alignment warning change table
The following error appears in the console:
Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr
but I do not see where is missing in the code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames,...
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How to make the elements of the first row of this table rotate like this photo [duplicate]
I'm trying to make this table and as you see it, the first row is rotated
So far I've done this
\begin{tabular}{|*{41}{c|}} % repeats {c|} 18 times
\hline
\multicolumn{5}{|c}{Placeholders} & \...
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how to merge column with tabularx?
I want the columns of the last row to be merged to one. How to do it? When i am having long sentence it wont come to next line even if i use \newline. Could anyone help me by adding one more such row.....
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Color table rows when using multirow and multicolumn
I made a table that uses multicolumn and multirow.
I have not been able to find out how to color the rows correctly, I found some questions on this net but they do not work out for me.
Any one can ...
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How to left align text in a multicolumn / tabular
I have the following tex code. I cannot get the text below the "user requirement under test" to align to the left. I tried to add the \multicolumn{1}{l}{text...} however this just sends the ...
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How to combine cells in tabularray
As the title suggests, I'd like to combine two cells to lie within one column.
The columns 2,3 and 4,5 should go under Kalibrierungswerte and 6,7 and 8,9 should go below Unbekannte Lösung. Now, the ...
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Problems with columns evenly spaced
I have the following example code, and I want all the columns to have the same width:
\documentclass[xcolor=table]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx} % Required for inserting images
\usepackage{tabularx,...
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Wide table, pictures and text issues, multicolumn, etc
I am currently writing an internship report, and trying to sum up some information in a wide table. So far, I got this (table is wider in my doc, but width is not an issue here) :
\documentclass[11pt,...
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column widths when using multicolumn
Any suggestion to improve the column widths using multicolumn, and adding headers (see desired table style )
Here my code, output, and desired Table style
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=...
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How to correct the error concerning the order \multicolumn?
I have a LaTeX code that works fine in my first template but when I copy it to my new template, it doesn't work and I really don't know why I get this error:
Misplaced \noalign. You have used a \...
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How to make each column evenly spaced?
The last $x_3$ column has a larger space than other columns. How to solve? Thanks. I want all the $x_1$, $x_2$ and $x_3$ in the table to be evenly spaced.
\begin{table}[h]
\begin{tabular}{rrr|rrr|rrr|...
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How do I set custom spaces in tabular so that multicolumn behaves well?
The following code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\raggedright
\begin{tabular}{l@{ }l@{ }l@{ }l}
super: & foo &...
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How to get this listing layout in LaTeX
I was reading this paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.03532.pdf), which appears to be written and generated from LaTeX, how, can you make something like the below in LaTeX. My setup: \documentclass[...
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In Multicol environment using solution box, equation overruns box
The code creates a 3 column math solution set with the step-by-step solutions framed in a box.
For problem #4, the equation over-runs the box.
I tried reducing the font from 12 pt to 11 pt.
\...
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