Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ centering table headers

[tchari]

Hello everyone,

I'm pretty new to LaTeX and I've been trying to figure out a way to create a table where my table headers are centered but the rest of the table is not. I tried using the {\centering Blarg} commands, but they didn't work. Here is a minimal working example:

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\documentclass [12pt,letterpaper]{report}
\begin {document}
\begin{table}
    \begin{center}
        \begin{tabular}{|p{45mm} p{45mm} p{45mm}|}
            \hline
                \begingroup\centering Header 1\endgroup & \begingroup\centering Header 2\endgroup & \begingroup\centering Header 3\endgroup \\
            Some random text here to fill the box & Some random text here to fill the box & Some random text here to fill the box \\
            \hline
        \end{tabular}
    \end{center}
\end{table}
\end{document}
 
 
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As you can see from my code above, I then tried the \begingroup...\endgroup but that didn't work either. In fact the only thing I found that did work was to embed centering environments around each header. That is:

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\begin{center}
Blarg
\end{center}
 
 
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However, as many other forum posts have informed me, this leaves some vertical white space around the headers. Is there a way to center only the headers without using the center environment? Or is there a way to limit the white space from the center environment?

Thanks!
-Tarun

[daleif]

use \multicolumn{1}{c}{...} around your headers
BTW: each cell is a group of its own so the \begin/endgroup are not needed. You may also want to check the array class, which can exmplan how one might center the contents of a p{...}

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\documentclass [12pt,letterpaper]{report}
\begin {document}
\begin{table}
   \begin{center}
      \begin{tabular}{|p{45mm} p{45mm} p{45mm}|}
         \hline
            \multicolumn{1}{|c}{Header 1} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Header 2} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Header 3} \\
         Some random text here to fill the box & Some random text here
         to fill the box 
         & Some random text here to fill the box \\
         \hline
      \end{tabular}
   \end{center}
\end{table}
\end{document}
 
 
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Thanks, much appreciated!