Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Vertical Lines exceed Table

[adhraklasoon]

Hi all,

I've got two rather simple tables. The data is all in the right place, but the vertical lines exceed the end of both tables. Also I have no vertical line at the end of first row of the second table. I'm sorry to post such a primitive question. Even tried to search the forum, but failed. So thought it would be much much easier to just ask an expert to help me out.

Please find attached source and output files.

Thank you!
Sonia

[cgnieder]

Hi Sonia,

This is the cause of your problems: don't put the \label inside the tabular. It can't label anything there since it needs to follow \caption and worse: it starts a new cell. In your second table the \multicolumns only span two cells instead of three which is why you're missing two cells in that line.

Since you're mentioning aesthetics I'd suggest a few things:

• use less vertical lines, I'd use none
• you're loading booktabs; use it
• use siunitx for the alignment of the numbers.

Putting this together for your example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs,siunitx}
\setlength\heavyrulewidth{1pt}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}[ht]
 \centering\small
 \caption{insert caption here}\label{UM_result1}
 \begin{tabular}{l*5{S[table-format=2.1]}}
  \toprule
        & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Men}     & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Women}   \\
  \cmidrule(lr){2-3}\cmidrule(lr){4-5}
   Age  & {Leg (n=34)} & {Arm (n=14)} & {Leg (n=29)} & {Arm (n=12)} \\
   Mean & 45.0         & 30.3         & 37.0         & 25.8         \\
   SD   & 21.5         & 8.1          & 18.0         & 5.8          \\
   Min  & 19.0         & 24.0         & 20.0         & 21.0         \\
   Max  & 84.0         & 46.0         & 76.0         & 42.0         \\
  \bottomrule
 \end{tabular}
\end{table}

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\begin{table}[ht]
 \centering\small
 \caption{insert caption here}\label{UM_result2}
 \begin{tabular}{
   l
   *2{
   S[table-space-text-post=\,\% *,table-format=2]
   S[table-format=1.2]
   S[table-format=1.2]
   }
  }
  \toprule
                  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Leg model}  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Arm model} \\
  \cmidrule(lr){2-4}\cmidrule(lr){5-7}
                  & {Mean difference} & {$r$}   & {$r^2$}  & {Mean difference} & {$r$} & {$r^2$} \\
   Mass           & 2\,\%           & 0.39  & 0.15   & 37\,\% *          & 0.64  & 0.41  \\
   Mass-Fat       & 7\,\% *         & 0.60  & 0.36   & 36\,\% *          & 0.89  & 0.80  \\
   Regression     & 0\,\%           & 0.68  & 0.46   & 2\,\%             & 0.92  & 0.85  \\
   Approximation  & 1\,\%           & 0.88  & 0.78   & 0\,\%             & 0.99  & 0.99  \\
  \bottomrule
 \end{tabular}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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Regards

[adhraklasoon]

Wow! I got an even better reply than expected! Thank you Clemens