LaTeX forum ⇒ TeXworks ⇒ How to center a cell among several columns?

[yaozhao]

\begin{tabular}{l|ccc}
 & Year \\
\cline{2-4}
City & 2006 & 2007 & 2008 \\
\hline
London & 45789 & 46551 & 51298 \\
Berlin & 34549 & 32543 & 29870 \\
Paris & 49835 & 51009 & 51970 \\
\end{tabular}

This is a practical practice from a tutorial. There is only one difference. Now I want "Year" to be centered among 2-4 columns. How to do that?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

No problem, just write

\multicolumn{3}{c}{Year}

Here are three parameters (arguments):

3 is the number of columns to span
c is the formatting I chose here (like a column formatting specifier)
then the actual content of the big cell

Stefan

[yaozhao]

Great, thanks!
I guess c here denotes center?

[Johannes_B]

Yes. C is for center.