[Tugindia] merging of columns

[jaspreet kaur]

 It works
Thanks a lot
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:45 AM, S. venkataraman <svenkat at ignou.ac.in>wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:50 AM, jaspreet kaur <jaspritsarao at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > >
> >
> > >    Sorry, unable to understand
> > I want to make a table having 4 columns and 6 rows
> > in the last row i want to merge 2 and 1/2 columns and remaining is one
> and
> > half
> > i used the code:
> > \multicolumn{3}{text} & {text}
> > it
> > merges three column
> > please help me
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> Sorry, I misunderstood what you want.
> What you want can be done, but it is a bit laborious.
> You have to do the following:
>
>   1. Declare 5 columns.
>   2. In the first 5 rows, merge columns 3 and 4 with
>   rows of the form
>   column1 text&column2 text &\multicolumn{2}{column 4 text}&
>   column 5 text
>   3. In the last column use
>   \multicolumn{3}{2 and a half columns text}&\multicolumn{2}{1 and a half
>   columns text.}
>
> Here is a self contained snippet. The length of the
> columns may need some fine tuning, depending on the
> text.
>
> \documentclass{article}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \begin{tabular}{|*5{c|}}
>
> 1&2&\multicolumn{2}{c}{3}&4\\
>
> 1&2&\multicolumn{2}{c}{3}&4\\
>
> 1&2&\multicolumn{2}{c}{3}&4\\
>
> 1&2&\multicolumn{2}{c}{3}&4\\
>
> 1&2&\multicolumn{2}{c}{3}&4\\
>
> \multicolumn{3}{c|}{123}&\multicolumn{2}{c}{12}
>
> \end{tabular}
>
> \end{document}
>
>
>
> best,
> S. Venkataraman
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