General ⇒ Table issue, please advise?

[fxlatex]

OK ... I have constructed a table for contact information. I get many errors when I run “latex zzz.tex” :

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l.112 ...n{tabular}{|b{2cm}|b{2cm}|b{5cm}|b{2cm}|}
                                                  
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! LaTeX Error: Illegal character in array arg.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
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l.112 ...n{tabular}{|b{2cm}|b{2cm}|b{5cm}|b{2cm}|}
                                                  
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! LaTeX Error: Illegal character in array arg.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.112 ...n{tabular}{|b{2cm}|b{2cm}|b{5cm}|b{2cm}|}
                                                  
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! LaTeX Error: Illegal character in array arg.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
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\begin{center}
\small\addtolength{\tabcolsep}{-5pt}
\begin{tabular}{|b{2cm}|b{2cm}|b{5cm}|b{2cm}|}
\hline
\multicolumn{4}{|c|}{\sl ****************} \\
\hline
{\bf Members Name} & {\bf Address} & {\bf E-Mail} & {\bf Phone } \\
\hline
Name & Address & e-mail & phone \\
\end{tabular}
\end{center}

\newpage

In total it is an 8 page document; and page six is blank! I can not figure what I have done wrong, I can not fix this.

I really have very little experience – w/latex - and am lucky the table looks good.

Any ideas on how I can stop it from printing the blank page?

Any feed back is much appreciated.

[Juanjo]

LaTeX complains about the b descriptor you write in the argument of tabular. It is not a standard descriptor, but it is defined in the array package. Load it by adding \usepackage{array} to the preamble. Instead, you may simply replace b by p. Check if this suits your needs.
By the way, the comands \sl and \bf are obsolete. They should be replaced by \slshape and \bfseries.

[fxlatex]

Thanks for the feed back, I did the above mentioned fix replaced “b” with “p” and added \usepackage{array} ... this helped with the errors.

However, now I have two blank pages - in my document - and these errors!

Any thoughts?

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Underfull \hbox (badness 5711) in paragraph at lines 224--224
[]|\OT1/ppl/m/n/9 home 859-9921 cell

Overfull \hbox (52.39455pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 193--237
 [] 
[7]
Overfull \vbox (13.16982pt too high) has occurred while \output is active
[8]
Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 252--252
[]|\OT1/ppl/m/n/10 cell (863)602-9639

Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 252--252
\OT1/ppl/m/n/10 home: 407-650-

Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 255--255
[]|\OT1/ppl/m/n/10 686-1445 & 687-

Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 258--258
[]|\OT1/ppl/m/n/10 Wortham, James &

Overfull \hbox (92.39455pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 243--264

[Juanjo]

An "underfull \hbox" warning express that LaTeX cannot properly fill a text line, so it has to supply too much blank space. Words in such a line appear excessively apart ones from others. Contrarily, an "overfull \hbox" means that LaTeX has not enough room in the line to put all the text it should. Hence, text extends on the right margin.

Analogously, "underfull/overfull \vbox" warnings refer to problems with vertical space: there are too few or too many things (paragraphs, boxes...) to vertically fill a given space (usuallly a page or a minipage).

These warnings strongly depend on cour code. To get more feedback, you should post a mimimal working example.