Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Complex Table with merged Cells over Columns and Rows

[Rimme]

Hi,

I'm trying to make the following table, but I cant seem to get it right.

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___________________________
|__|_________________|    |
|__|___________|     |    |
|__|_____|_____|_____|____|
|__|_____|_____|_____|____|

Hope that someone can help me make the table. I've tried using multirow and \multicolumn but I only get errors.

[svend_tveskaeg]

Hi and welcome to the board.

Please show your try/tries as a minimal working example.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Rimme,

welcome to the board!

I've tried using multirow and multicolumn but I only get errors.

In such cases two things are good to know:

• what did you try (as Svend already asked), so we can tell you what has been wrong
• what were the error messages

Generelly "I get errors" without telling the error messages messages and even without what's been done doesn't show us much. It's hard to help then. A "type a complex table for me" surely wasn't meant by you, but to learn what's wrong and what's correct.

Stefan

[Rimme]

I hope this is what you asked for.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}
  \centering
    \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|} \hline
      \multirow{3}{|c|}{...}  & \multicolumn{3}{|c|}{...}                     &     \multirow{3}{|c|}{...} \\\hline                      
                              & \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{...} & \multirow{2}{|c|}{...} &  \\\hline                    
                              & a & b	                  & 	              &   \\\hline
	a		      & b & c	                  & e	              & f \\\hline
     \end{tabular}
\end{table}

\end{document}

The error I get when I only use the above is:

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!Undefined control sequence.<to be read again> \multirow \multirow

When I put the same table in the document that I am working on these errors occurs:

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!Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again>|\multirow{3}{|c|}{...}
!Illegal unit of messure (pt inserted). <to be read again>|\multirow{3}{|c|}{...}

[cgnieder]

Well, now the issue is clear: there is no \multirow command! LaTeX only provides the \multicolumn command but no equivalent for rows. There is a package, though, that provides something similar: the multirow package. Have a look at its documentation (multirow) to see how it works.

Regards

[Rimme]

I have looked in the package manager and it seems that the package is already installed and I have \usepackage{multirow} in my preamble. So it looks like the package is not working.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

So you just forgot to put \usepackage{multirow} into your minimal example above, Clemens noticed that already. That's the reason for the Undefined control sequence error.

The error Missing number, treated as zero comes because you did not set a width. Have a look at the link to the multirow documentation, provided by Clemens above. The syntax for \multirow is

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\multirow{number of rows}{width}{text}

it also supports two optional arguments, which you did not use.

So, in your example, this would work:

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\multirow{3}{1cm}{|c|}{...}

and also this:

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\multirow{3}{*}{|c|}{...}

with * as indication for using the natural width of the text argument.

Stefan

[Rimme]

Thank you very much, everything is now working.