Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Customizing Tables

[SDavid]

Hi,

I am trying to do a time table as in the following code:

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\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{bigstrut}
\usepackage{array}

\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\pagestyle{empty}  
\begin{landscape}
\begin{tabular}{*{11}{| m{1.5cm} |}}
\cline{3-11}
& & \multicolumn{9}{|c|}{Week}\\\cline{3-11}
  &            & Week 1 & Week 2 & Week 3 & Week 4 & Week 5 &Week 6& Week 7 & Week 8 & Week 9 \\\cline{1-11}
              \multicolumn{1}{|c|}{\multirow{4}{*}{Course}} & \multicolumn{1}{|c|}{Course 1} &  &  &  & & &  & & &\\\cline{2-11}
              
              & \multicolumn{1}{|c|}{Course 2} & &  & &  & &  &  &  &\\\cline{2-11}
              & \multicolumn{1}{|c|}{Course 3} &  &  &  &  &  &  &  &  &\\\cline{2-11}
               & \multicolumn{1}{|c|}{Course 4} &  & &  &  &  &  &  & &\\\cline{1-11}
\end{tabular}
\end{landscape}
\end{document}

and I have some questions:

1. How to make the area over the first two columns (in the first two rows) completely blank?
2. How to align the writing in each cell to the center of the cell and maintaining the tabular argument above? I need the effect of |c| and |m{}| together.
3. Why is there double lines between columns?!

Thanks in advance

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi SDavid,

welcome to the board!

It's great that you posted a compilable minimal example. So of course I test your code and make suggestions.

Regarding your questions:

1. Use for example

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   \multicolumn{2}{c}{}

   without |. This overrides the |...| setting in the tabular options.
2. You can define your own column type which is centered both vertically and horizontally, such as

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   \newcolumntype{M}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{#1}}

3. That's because of your column definition. *{11}{| m{1.5cm} | expands to | m{1.5cm} || m{1.5cm} || m{1.5cm} |... Simply write

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   \begin{tabular}{|*{11}{M{1.5cm}|}}

Complete example:

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\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{bigstrut}
\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{M}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{#1}}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\pagestyle{empty} 
\begin{landscape}
\begin{tabular}{|*{11}{M{1.5cm}|}}
\cline{3-11}
\multicolumn{2}{c|}{} & \multicolumn{9}{c|}{Week}\\\cline{3-11}
\multicolumn{2}{c|}{}             & Week 1 & Week 2 & Week 3 & Week 4 & Week 5 &Week 6& Week 7 & Week 8 & Week 9 \\\cline{1-11}
              \multicolumn{1}{|c|}{\multirow{4}{*}{Course}} & \multicolumn{1}{|c|}{Course 1} &  &  &  & & &  & & &\\\cline{2-11}
             
              & \multicolumn{1}{|c|}{Course 2} & &  & &  & &  &  &  &\\\cline{2-11}
              & \multicolumn{1}{|c|}{Course 3} &  &  &  &  &  &  &  &  &\\\cline{2-11}
               & \multicolumn{1}{|c|}{Course 4} &  & &  &  &  &  &  & &\\\cline{1-11}
\end{tabular}
\end{landscape}
\end{document}

Btw. in general I recommend to avoid vertical lines in tables, they make reading lines harder.

Stefan

[SDavid]

Thank you Stefan, that is perfect.

Regards