Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Please help with this table!

[Tony20721]

Dear all, I've been trying so desperately for two days in trying to write down the code for the table herewith attached but with no success... how can I do!? I tried the most but it seems to appear unformatted all the time. I am using MiKTeX on windows.
Please! Thank you all for your interest!
Tony

[localghost]

Typesetting tables can indeed be painful. The code below reproduces the table in the picture. Get familiar with all the involved packages by studying their manuals. This will enable you to typeset other tables on your own.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage[%
  font=small,
  labelfont=bf,
  labelsep=period,
  tableposition=top
]{caption}
\usepackage{mathtools}   % loads »amsmath«
\usepackage{booktabs,multirow}
\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
\usepackage{siunitx}

\sisetup{%
  load-configurations=abbreviations
}

\begin{document}
  \begin{table}[!ht]
    \caption{Table caption}\label{tab:let}
    \centering
    \begin{tabular}{%
      l
      S[table-number-alignment=left]
      S[table-number-alignment=center]
      S[table-number-alignment=center]
      S[table-number-alignment=center]
      S[table-number-alignment=center]
      S[table-number-alignment=center]
    }\toprule
      \multirow{3}{*}{\parbox{4em}{\raggedright Charged particle \ce{^MN^Z}}} &
      \multirow{3}{*}{\parbox{8em}{\raggedright $E$ (\si{\MeV\per\atomicmassunit}) $\text{Range}=\SI{262}{\mm}$}} &
      \multicolumn{5}{c}{LET (\si{\keV\per\micro\meter}) at various} \\
      & & \multicolumn{5}{c}{residual ranges in water (\si{\mm})} \\\cmidrule(lr){3-7}
      & & {262} & {150} & {70} & {30} & {1} \\ \midrule
      \ce{^1H^{+1}} & 200.0 & 0.5 & 0.6 & 0.8 & 1.1 & 4.8 \\
      \ce{^4He^{+2}} & 202.0 & 1.8 & 2.2 & 3.1 & 4.4 & 20.0 \\
      \ce{^7Li^{+3}} & 234.3 & 3.7 & 4.6 & 6.2 & 8.9 & 40.0 \\
      \ce{^{11}B^{+5}} & 329.5 & 8.5 & 10.0 & 13.5 & 19.0 & 87.5 \\
      \ce{^{12}C^{+6}} & 390.7 & 11.0 & 13.5 & 17.5 & 24.5 & 112.0 \\
      \ce{^{14}N^{+7}} & 430.5 & 13.5 & 14.5 & 22.5 & 31.5 & 142.0 \\
      \ce{^{12}O^{+8}} & 468.0 & 18.0 & 21.5 & 28.0 & 39.0 & 175.0 \\\bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
  \end{table}
\end{document}

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Tony20721]

God bless you, you solved my problem.
I am still a new by so I couldn't find the right indentation.
I will study everything you wrote me.
The only thing is that as I have wrote by far with different packages , when compiling it will not accept packages like
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
and also I will not change the main document class!
Thank you very much!
Tony.
Please where i can find the manuals for each package!?

[localghost]

[…] I am still a new by so I couldn't find the right indentation. […]

What do you mean with indentation in this context?

[…] The only thing is that as I have wrote by far with different packages , when compiling it will not accept packages like

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\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

and also I will not change the main document class! […]

You should elaborate that a bit more. The inputenc package is not mandatory if you write in English but helps with inserting special characters in other languages. And the code does not depend on the document class. My example is just a basic structure, especially regarding the class.

[…] Please where i can find the manuals for each package!?

You can either find them on CTAN or on your local machine via command line.

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texdoc ‹packagename›

[Tony20721]

Right idnetations means putting the right words in the right columns and also not making the words slide alogsides as it happened to me trying to type the one you got me right!
I'll see what \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}allows me to do. Since now it has not recognized many symbols that i wrote in a different way, id does not reconize them!
Thank you so much!