Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ Change the color of a cell in a table

[crashpole]

Hi all,

I was using MasterDoctoralThesis template v1.4 and in there I used a package to color a single cell in table. But now i have started using the v 1.5 upon a suggestion in the forum, I have a problem with coloring the cells in a table.

This is the package I used previously:

\usepackage[table,xcdraw]{xcolor}

in this table


\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|}
\hline
.
.
.
\textbf{Age} & \cellcolor[HTML]{C0C0C0}-.595 & -.234 & .203 & -.107 & -.040 \\ \hline
.
.
.

There are couple more cells that are colored with the same color (grey).

This is the error message

Undefined control sequence.
l.44 \textbf{Age} & \cellcolor
[HTML]{C0C0C0}-.595 & -.234 & .203 & -.107 & -...


Which command should I use to do the same thing in v 1.5? Thank you very much!

[crashpole]

I got it fixed. Leaving it here so other people can benefit.

Really easy fix:

Go to the class file,


find the xcolor package

and add these attributes to it;

[table,xcdraw]

[Johannes_B]

Better to do what the wikibook suggests here: Add those options to the list of global options*, that is

Code: Select all

\documentclass[table,xcdraw, english,%others
]{MastersDoctoralThesis}

Changing the class file would mean to change several other things; the name, the copyright note etc. Licences are a complex thing.


* It doesn't. Somebody reverted the urgently needed improvements

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Even if one ignores license issues, since it's just on a private computer, changing class file has risks: it would break things once you use an updated version of that class.

I would use

\PassOptionsToPackage{table,xcdraw}{xcolor}

before loading the class, that is, at the very beginning of the document.

Stefan

[crashpole]

Oh sorry I was not aware with the licencing issues. I will change it with Stefan's recommendations. Thank you very much for the help!