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column widths when using multicolumn

You defined 4 columns but your table has only 3. \documentclass{article} \usepackage[margin=2cm,a4paper]{geometry} % set page parameters suitably \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[english]{babel} \...
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How to make each column evenly spaced?

you can use a wr column so they are specifed width and wider than the spanning columns. If you squeeze the white space it (just) fits in article width (or you could use \small) \documentclass[...
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Should I use minipages to re-create this document in LaTeX?

A solution with tabularray. Since you didn't provide an MWE, for convenience I used "blah" and didn't write the correct phonetic symbols and words. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{...
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tabular multicolumn - weird cell size

With {NiceTabular} of nicematrix. \documentclass{beamer} \mode<presentation>{\usetheme{Madrid}} \usepackage{nicematrix} \begin{document} \newcolumntype{C}{>{\columncolor{black}\color{white}}...
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How to make each column evenly spaced?

Like this? Unfortunately used \documentclass nor document page layout are unknown. Table with 15 columns is quite wide, so it can't be fit in default defined article text block. Equal width of ...
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How to correct the error concerning the order \multicolumn?

The user guide of the dgruyter package states unequivocally that vertical rules should not be used in tables. The user guide states, moreover, that the booktabs package is loaded automatically by the ...
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How to make each column evenly spaced?

The title of your query asks how to make all 15 columns of the tabular environment have the same width. Actually, I think that all that's really needed is to make the final two columns have the same ...
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Is a p-column allowed in a \multicolumn?

With tabularray, you can choose the width of the multicolumn cell and also the spanning algorithm: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tabularray} \usepackage{caption} \begin{document} In Table \...
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How do I set custom spaces in tabular so that multicolumn behaves well?

except for the first column @{} (and |) are considered part of the preceding column, so in \multicolumn you almost always should use l@{ } not @{ }l \documentclass{article} \usepackage{booktabs} \...
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How do you adjust so the text in the columns become evenly spaced and aligned?

A solution with tabularray and its siunitx and booktabs libraries. Please note that with the option guard you don't have to worry anymore about headers used with siunitx. \documentclass{article} \...
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Make multicolumn break if the text is too long

With tabularx: \documentclass[twocolumn]{article} \usepackage{geometry} \usepackage{float} \usepackage[font=normalsize]{caption} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage{array} \newcolumntype{C}{>{\...
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Removing extra space from table with multirow and multicolumn

I would like to show you a solution with tabularray: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{geometry} \usepackage{tabularray} \usepackage{pifont} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amssymb} \begin{...
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Using multicolumn in tabularx

A couple of solutions with tabularray. Please note that you don't need to add other tabulars to format the headers: \documentclass[a4paper]{book} \usepackage{geometry} \usepackage{tabularray} \...
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