Merging table columns
BrettHarry asked on TeX.SX:
How to merge columns in a table?
I have this table, but wanted to format the first row. I like to match the two columns of first row, and last two columns of the same first row. Any suggestion on how to do that?
\begin{table}[!h] \caption{Comparison of percentages.} \begin{tabular}{lclclclclc} \hline \hline Mode & Var & Cum\\ \hline {} & EF & CHF & EF2 & CHF2\\ 1 & 17.5 & 19.1 & 17.5 & 19.1\\ 2 & 11.8 & 12.7 & 29.3 & 31.9\\ 3 & 6.6 & 5.6 & 35.9 & 37.4\\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{table} |
Answer:
An example, how it can be done using \multicolum, with some improvements using booktabs:
\documentclass{article} \usepackage{array} \usepackage{booktabs} \setlength{\heavyrulewidth}{1.5pt} \setlength{\abovetopsep}{4pt} \begin{document} \begin{table}[!htbp] \centering \caption{Comparison of percentages.} \begin{tabular}{*5c} \toprule Mode & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Var} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Cum}\\ \midrule {} & EF & CHF & EF2 & CHF2\\ 1 & 17.5 & 19.1 & 17.5 & 19.1\\ 2 & 11.8 & 12.7 & 29.3 & 31.9\\ 3 & 6.6 & 5.6 & 35.9 & 37.4\\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \end{table} \end{document} |
