Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Problems with the table caption

[greenfalcon]

Hello everyone,

i would like to create a table that looks like the one below:

what i did to get it, was

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\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline
\textbf{Homework Assignment} & \textbf{Distribution} & \textbf{Due Date}\\
\hline
\hline

1&15.04.2010&26.04.2010\\
2&29.04.2010&10.05.2010\\
3&13.05.2010&24.05.2010\\
4&27.05.2010&07.06.2010\\
5&10.06.2010&21.06.2010\\
6&24.06.2010&05.07.2010\\
\hline
\hline

\end{tabular}

\end{center}

\parskip 14pt

\begin{center}
Table 1: All assignments must be handed in by 18.00!
\end{center}

the result does like really close, but i think there has to be a better way of getting the captioning done... i tried it, but it didnt work :/

how do i have to use \caption and \label to get it done?

thank you very much

[sbzx]

Try something like this:

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\begin{table}
  \begin{center}
    \begin{tabular}
     ...
    \end{tabular}
    \caption{Your caption text}
    \label{Your reference label}
  \end{center}
\end{table}

Refer to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables for more info.

[greenfalcon]

thank you

[sommerfee]

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  \begin{center}
     ...
  \end{center}

This will add unwanted vertical space. Better use \centering instead.

[sbzx]

This will add unwanted vertical space. Better use \centering instead.

Thank you, sommerfree. For some reason, I had the impression \centering and \begin{center}...\end{center} were the same, the former being a deprecated form; apparently, a beginner's mistake.