Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ table position in the text or end of document

[cfdprogrammer]

Hi there everyone,

I am trying to have a table set in the position in the text where I am use it.

I post my environment below; what should I change/add in the header of my latex file to have the tabular within the text and not sent to the end of the document?

Thank you very much in advance
All the best
S.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}              
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}    
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{epstopdf}

\parindent0em

\DeclareGraphicsRule{.tif}{png}{.png}{`convert #1 `dirname #1`/`basename #1 .tif`.png}

\title{ TITLE}
\author{author}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\newpage
\tableofcontents

\section{A table section}

\begin{table}[H]
\caption{captionhere}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{lc c  c c c }
\hline\hline
\\
hello1   & hello2 & hello3 & hello4 & hello5\\
\hline\\
string1 	& string2 & string3 &  string4 &  string5 \\
string1  & string2 & string3 &  string4 &  string5 \\

\hline
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\label{entries}
\end{table}

[localghost]

[...] I am trying to have a table set in the position in the text where I am use it. [...]

Start with using appropriate specifiers in the option list for the table environment.

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\begin{table}[!ht]
  % Table contents
\end{table}

As very last measure you can use the [H] specifier provided by the float package. You are already using it, but without loading the package.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[cfdprogrammer]

Hi Thorsten,

Thank you very much for replying. Your suggestion helped, it now works as I want it

Best regards
Simone

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Simone,

by the way, inside table and figure environments consider to use \centering instead of \begin{center}...\end{center}, that could cause additional vertical space, perhaps have a look at center vs. \centering.

Stefan