General ⇒ Complicated Table

[a7n9]

Hello all,

I created the attached jpeg using Tableau, which looks great, but I'm having serious trouble placing it in my document. So, I tried to create a table, but it is also giving me problems, as it doesn't look as good as the jpeg. Can someone please help me creating this table in LaTex?

I used this code for the table:

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\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}} | l | >{\color{myblue}} c | c | c | l | c | c | c | l | c | c | c |}
\hline
\rowcolor[gray]{0.8}
\textbf{Maths/Stats Tools} & A & I & B & \textbfLanguages} & A & I & B & \textbf{Operating Systems} & A & I & B \\ \hline 
Arena & \mycircle &  &  & BASIC &  &  & & Windows 98-XP &  &  &  \\ 
Design-Expert version 6 & \mycircle &  &  & SQL &  &  & & Ubuntu &  &  &  \\ 
JMP & \mycircle &  &  & VB 6.0 &  &  & & \textbf{Desktop Publishing} &  &  &  \\ 
MATLAB 6.1 &  & \mycircle &  & VBA &  &  & & Adobe Acrobat. &  &  &  \\ 
MINITAB 13 &  & \mycircle &  & C &  &  & & Dreamweaver MX &  &  &  \\ 
S-Plus &  & \mycircle &  & COBOL &  &  & & Swish 2 &  &  &  \\ 
SAS 8.1 &  & \mycircle &  & Pascal &  &  & & Flash &  &  &  \\ 
SPSS &  & \mycircle &  &  .NET &  &  & & Front page &  &  &  \\ 
MathCad 2001 &  &  & \mycircle &  &  &  &  &  &  & & \\ \hline 
\textbf{Business Intelligence} &  &  &  & \textbf{Special Tools} &  &  &  & \textbf{Legend} &  &  &  \\ \hline
Cognos &  &  &  & VP-Expert &  &  & & \multicolumn{4}{l}{A: Advanced} \\ 
Discoverer Plus &  &  &  & AFS 3D Solidification Modeling &  &  & & \multicolumn{4}{l}{I: Intermediate} \\ 
Tableau &  &  &  & LaTex &  &  & & \multicolumn{4}{l}{B: Beginner} \\ 
Xcelsius &  &  &  & NeuroShell 2 &  &  & & \multicolumn{4}{c}{ } \\ 
 &  &  &  & ProModel &  &  & \multicolumn{4}{c}{} \\ \hline 
\end{tabular*}

[Juanjo]

The following code may help you. Of course, check the bullets !

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{fullpage} % Replace this with geometry
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\begin{document}

\section{Computer Skills}

Table~\ref{table:1} shows the required skills to apply to that job.

% ------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Boxes to save each block of the table
% -------------------------------------
\newsavebox{\MathStatsBox}
\newsavebox{\LanguagesBox}
\newsavebox{\OperatingSystemsBox}
\newsavebox{\DesktopPublishingBox}
\newsavebox{\BusinessIntelligenceBox}
\newsavebox{\SpecialToolsBox}
\newsavebox{\LegendBox}

% Some settings that you may adjust
% ---------------------------------
% Let's keep all this settings local. Below there will be an \endgroup
\begingroup
% Color of lines in tables
\arrayrulecolor[gray]{0.5}
% To control row heigths
\newcommand{\ST}{\hspace{\tabcolsep}\protect\rule[-1ex]{0pt}{3.5ex}}
% Bullet in tables
\newcommand{\mycircle}{\textcolor{blue}{\textbullet}}
% Text size in tables
\footnotesize
% To control frames
\setlength{\fboxsep}{0pt}
\setlength{\fboxrule}{1pt}
% To control table widths
\newlength{\MiniPageWidth}
\setlength{\MiniPageWidth}{0.32\textwidth}
\newlength{\TabularWidth}
\setlength{\TabularWidth}{\MiniPageWidth}
\addtolength{\TabularWidth}{-2pt}

% Building blocks
% ----------------
% Math/Stats
\begin{lrbox}{\MathStatsBox}
  \begin{minipage}[t]{\MiniPageWidth}
    \textbf{Maths/Stats} \\
    \fbox{%
    \begin{tabularx}{\TabularWidth}{>{\columncolor[gray]{0.9}}X|c|c|c@{\ST}}
      \rowcolor[gray]{0.9} & A & I & B \\ \hline 
      Arena & \mycircle &  &  \\ \hline
      Design-Expert~v.~6 & \mycircle &  & \\ \hline
      JMP & \mycircle &  &  \\ \hline
      MATLAB 6.1 &  & \mycircle & \\ \hline
      MINITAB 13 &  & \mycircle &  \\ \hline
      S-Plus &  & \mycircle &  \\ \hline
      SAS 8.1 &  & \mycircle & \\ \hline
      SPSS &  & \mycircle &  \\ \hline
      MathCad 2001 &  &  & \mycircle 
   \end{tabularx}}
 \end{minipage}
\end{lrbox}
% Languages
\begin{lrbox}{\LanguagesBox}
  \begin{minipage}[t]{\MiniPageWidth}
    \textbf{Languages} \\
    \fbox{%
    \begin{tabularx}{\TabularWidth}{>{\columncolor[gray]{0.9}}X|c|c|c@{\ST}}
      \rowcolor[gray]{0.9} & A & I & B \\ \hline 
      BASIC & \mycircle &  &  \\ \hline
      SQL & \mycircle &  & \\ \hline
      VB 6.0 & \mycircle &  &  \\ \hline
      VBA & \mycircle &  & \\ \hline
      C &  & \mycircle &  \\ \hline
      COBOL &  & & \mycircle \\ \hline
      Pascal &  &  & \mycircle \\ \hline
      .NET &  & & \mycircle
    \end{tabularx}}
  \end{minipage}
\end{lrbox}
% Operating Systems
\begin{lrbox}{\OperatingSystemsBox}
  \begin{minipage}[t]{\MiniPageWidth}
    \textbf{Operating Systems} \\
    \fbox{%
    \begin{tabularx}{\TabularWidth}{>{\columncolor[gray]{0.9}}X|c|c|c@{\ST}}
      \rowcolor[gray]{0.9} & A & I & B \\ \hline 
      Windows & \mycircle &  &  \\ \hline
      Ubuntu &  & \mycircle & 
    \end{tabularx}}
  \end{minipage}
\end{lrbox}
% Desktop Publishing
\begin{lrbox}{\DesktopPublishingBox}
  \begin{minipage}[t]{\MiniPageWidth}
    \textbf{Desktop Publishing} \\
    \fbox{%
    \begin{tabularx}{\TabularWidth}{>{\columncolor[gray]{0.9}}X|c|c|c@{\ST}}
      \rowcolor[gray]{0.9} & A & I & B \\ \hline 
      Adobe Acrobat & \mycircle &  &  \\ \hline
      Dreamweaver MX &  & \mycircle & \\ \hline
      Swish 2 & \mycircle &  &  \\ \hline
      Flash & \mycircle &  &  \\ \hline
      Front Page & & \mycircle & 
    \end{tabularx}}
  \end{minipage}
\end{lrbox}
% Business Intelligence
\begin{lrbox}{\BusinessIntelligenceBox}
  \begin{minipage}[t]{\MiniPageWidth}
    \textbf{Business Intelligence} \\
    \fbox{%
    \begin{tabularx}{\TabularWidth}{>{\columncolor[gray]{0.9}}X|c|c|c@{\ST}}
      \rowcolor[gray]{0.9} & A & I & B \\ \hline 
      Cognos & \mycircle &  &  \\ \hline
      Discoverer Plus &  & \mycircle & \\ \hline
      Tableau & \mycircle &  &  \\ \hline
      Flash & \mycircle &  &  \\ \hline
      Xcelsius & & \mycircle & 
    \end{tabularx}}
  \end{minipage}
\end{lrbox}
% Special Tools
\begin{lrbox}{\SpecialToolsBox}
  \begin{minipage}[t]{\MiniPageWidth}
    \textbf{Special Tools} \\
    \fbox{%
    \begin{tabularx}{\TabularWidth}{>{\columncolor[gray]{0.9}}X|c|c|c@{\ST}}
      \rowcolor[gray]{0.9} & A & I & B \\ \hline 
      VP-Expert & \mycircle &  &  \\ \hline
      AFS3D Solidification Modelling &  & \mycircle & \\ \hline
      Neuro Shell 2 & \mycircle &  &  \\ \hline
      Pro Model & \mycircle &  & 
    \end{tabularx}}
  \end{minipage}
\end{lrbox}
% Legend
\begin{lrbox}{\LegendBox}
  \begin{minipage}[t]{\MiniPageWidth}
    \textbf{Legend} \\
    \begin{tabular}{@{}ll@{\ST}}
      A & Advanced \\  
      B & Intermediate \\ 
      C & Beginner 
    \end{tabular}
  \end{minipage}
\end{lrbox}

% Printing the full table
% -----------------------
\begin{table}
  \noindent\usebox{\MathStatsBox}\hfill \usebox{\LanguagesBox}\hfill 
  \begin{tabular}[t]{@{}l@{}} \usebox{\OperatingSystemsBox} \\[10ex]
    \usebox{\DesktopPublishingBox} \end{tabular} \\[1.5ex]
  \usebox{\BusinessIntelligenceBox}\hfill \usebox{\SpecialToolsBox}\hfill 
  \usebox{\LegendBox} \\
  \caption{Required computer skills}\label{table:1}
\end{table}

% End
% -----
\endgroup
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------

\end{document}

[a7n9]

Oh, wow, great. Thank you so much for your help, time, and efforts, Juanjo. I really appreciate that.