Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ How to color a certain row in tabular* environment?

[bobnayar]

I am trying to color a certain row in a table which has been made using the tabular* environment. The statement I have used for the tabular* is:

\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{2cm plus 5cm minus 2cm}}lcl}

and for the rowcolor, I used:

\rowcolor[gray]{.95}

before each row that I needed colored. However the output is such that it appears that discrete cells are colored but there is space between the cells that is NOT colored. I believe the extracolsep is responsible for this, but I don't know how to take care of this. Any help you can provide would be most appreciated.
Thanks

[bobnayar]

Since I was not getting a reply to this, I contacted a friend who is a TeX guru and he came up with the following for a row to be colored in tabular* environment:

Put this in preamble:

\usepackage[dvips]{color}
\usepackage{multicol}
\definecolor{Mygrey}{gray}{0.95}

Then put this statement above the line with the row contents that you want colored:

\makebox[0pt][l]{\fboxsep0pt\colorbox{Mygrey} {\strut\hspace*{\linewidth}}}

So, in my case, the relevant code looked like:

\makebox[0pt][l]{\fboxsep0pt\colorbox{Mygrey} {\strut\hspace*{\linewidth}}}
Deposit Money Bank Assets & $dkldby$ & 1.084$^{**}$ \\

[localghost]

A much easier way would be to use the colortbl package. It is loaded by the xcolor package when setting a special option.

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\usepackage[table]{xcolor}

More information is given in the according manuals which can be found on CTAN


Best regards
Thorsten¹