Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Centering the Cell Content in the Table Header

[marie2011]

Dear forum members,

I was wondering how I can center just specific contents of a heading in a table. I would like to center the word "University" and "Bern".

I have a minimal example:

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\documentclass[
12pt,%
%  draft,%
  twoside,%
  BCOR10mm,%
  bib=totoc,        
toc=listof,
toc=bibliography,
numbers=noenddot
]{scrreprt}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[spanish,ngerman,catalan,english]{babel}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[!ht]
\caption{Example}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lcclcl}
\toprule
\textbf{Name} &  \textbf{Surname} &     \textbf{Age} &
\textbf{University}& \textbf{Level of Proficiency} \\
\midrule 
Helen & Dooley& 20 & Bern & C2\\ 
\hline
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:infogeneralemden}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,

Marie

[localghost]

Please check your examples for functionality and minimal content before you add them to a question. In your example here at least the booktabs package is missing to get the table. And the packages natbib and tabularx are not needed here to reproduce the problem.

You want nothing else then centering the content of a whole column. So you did a small mistake in the table preamble. You declare six columns but you use only five. Furthermore there is an l column type where you do not want it. Your table preamble should read like this.

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\begin{tabular}{l*{4}{c}}
% table content
\end{tabular}

This will center all columns except for the first one. I don't know if that is what you want but you should be able to correct this if necessary.

Since you want your table header to be in bold type face, it is suggestive to incorporate some code from the UK TeX FAQ (see code below). It requires to load the array package for the declaration of some new column types.

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\documentclass[
  fontsize=12pt,%
  twoside,%
  BCOR=10mm,%
  bibliography=totoc,
  captions=tableabove,
  listof=totoc,
  numbers=noenddot
]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[spanish,ngerman,catalan,english]{babel}
\usepackage{array,booktabs}

%% Some code from the UK TeX FAQ to influence the style of a complete table row
%% see: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=wholerow
\newcolumntype{_}{>{\global\let\currentrowstyle\relax}}
\newcolumntype{^}{>{\currentrowstyle}}
\newcommand{\rowstyle}[1]{%
  \gdef\currentrowstyle{#1}%
  #1\ignorespaces
}

\begin{document}
  \begin{table}[!ht]
    \caption{Example}
    \label{tab:infogeneralemden}
    \centering
    \begin{tabular}{_l*{4}{^c}} \toprule
      \rowstyle{\bfseries}
      Name & Surname & Age & University & Level of Proficiency \\ \midrule
      Helen & Dooley& 20 & Bern & C2 \\ \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
  \end{table}
\end{document}

Thorsten

[marie2011]

Hallo Thorsten,

Many thanks for your prompt answer. I am going to try what you suggested.

Regards,

Marie