Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Multi-page Table with page width in two column article

[kspanakis]

Hello, I want to insert a table in a two column article in Latex. What I need is the table to be as wide as the page and spanning across multiple pages. How can that be done???

Thank you in advance

[rais]

For tables spanning multiple pages, packages longtable and supertabular come to mind.
Switching to single column you can achieve by

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\onecolumn
% put your table here
\twocolumn

KR
Rainer

[kspanakis]

Hello. I used these latex commands but it broke the page and it inserted the table in a new page and the text after the table was inserted in another new page. Too much of white blank space. How can I solve this thing. By the way how can I make the table split to several pages?

[rais]

I used these latex commands but it broke the page and it inserted the table in a new page and the text after the table was inserted in another new page. Too much of white blank space.

That's right, \onecolumn and \twocolumn both start a new page. If you wish to switch between modes within the same page, discard "twocolumn" from the option list for your documentclass, add \usepackage{multicol} to your preamble and surround everything that's to be set in two-column-mode by

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\begin{multicols}{2}
%...
\end{multicols}

By the way how can I make the table split to several pages?

Read my previous answer again. It contains links to the documentation of two packages that allow multipage tables. Pick one.

KR
Rainer

[kspanakis]

Sorry. I focused too much on the code that I missed the links on longtable and supertabular. The problem is that I want to write an article for IEEE journal, therefore I use the IEEtran document class which is always two column. What I want is to deactivate temporarily the two column to insert a page-wide multi-page table and then reactivate the two column.

[rais]

Well then, perhaps you should have a little talk with whom-ever-you're-about-to-turn-your-article-in-to, if a little white space is even a problem.
If, on the other hand, you wish to pursue this issue further:

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\documentclass[onecolumn]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{multicol}
%...
\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{2}
% stuff in two-column mode
\end{multicols}
% put your table here
\begin{multicols}{2}
% stuff in two-column mode again
\end{multicols}
\end{document}

should do what you want regarding the switching to/from single column.

KR
Rainer

[Colorado2011]

Well then, perhaps you should have a little talk with whom-ever-you're-about-to-turn-your-article-in-to, if a little white space is even a problem.
If, on the other hand, you wish to pursue this issue further:

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\documentclass[onecolumn]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{multicol}
%...
\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{2}
% stuff in two-column mode
\end{multicols}
% put your table here
\begin{multicols}{2}
% stuff in two-column mode again
\end{multicols}
\end{document}

should do what you want regarding the switching to/from single column.

KR
Rainer

Hello Rainer,
if I apply this code, is this a permanent change? or I have to apply it every time?

[rais]

if I apply this code, is this a permanent change? or I have to apply it every time?

I don't really understand what you'd expect to be permanently changed by the code provided, it simply makes use of the fact that multicol's multicols environment allows switching between single / two (or even more) columns without the need of starting a new page.

KR
Rainer