Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Table cells lose formatting after multicolumn

[greybadger]

Hi,

I have a problem whereby individual cells following a multicolumn statement are not centred. The following is a simple example:

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\begin{table}[h]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c|cc|cc|cc|}
\hline
Heading & \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{2 Column Heading} & \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{2 Column Heading} & \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{2 Column Heading}\\
A & B & C & D & E & F & G\\
\hline
a & b & c & d & e & f & g\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}

In this table, all letters that are not A and aligned left. Can anyone shed any light on this?

Thanks!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

The content of those cells is actually centered, have a look at this modified example, where some entries are wider:

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\begin{tabular}{|c|cc|cc|cc|}
\hline
Heading & \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{2 Column Heading} & \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{2 Column Heading} & \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{2 Column Heading}\\
A & B & C & D & E & F & G\\
\hline
a & bbbbbb & cccccc & d & e & f & g\\
\hline
\end{tabular}

Stefan

[greybadger]

Ah yes, OK... I'll rephrase my question then

In the above example, the columns following a multicolumn statement aren't of equal width (the first of the merged columns is small, the second is wide). Is there a way to force these to be of equal width?

Each of my cell entries is just a number between 0 and 10 with 2 decimal places, so it looks odd having misaligned columns.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You could use a p column with fixed width, like this:

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\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{x}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{1.5cm}}
...
\begin{tabular}{|c|xx|xx|xx|}
...

Stefan

[greybadger]

Great, works fine. Thanks.