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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label multirow</title>
</head><body>
<h3>Merging cells in a column of a table</h3>
-<p>It's easy to come up with a table design that requires a cell that
+<p>It&rsquo;s easy to come up with a table design that requires a cell that
spans several rows. An example is something where the left-most
column labels the rest of the table; this can be done (in simple
cases) by using
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ might write:
<pre>
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
-\multirow{4}*{Common g text}
+\multirow{4}{*}{Common g text}
& Column g2a\\
& Column g2b \\
& Column g2c \\
@@ -24,12 +24,12 @@ might write:
\hline
\end{tabular}
</pre>
-</blockquote>
-and <i>multirow</i> will position "Common g text" at the vertical
+</blockquote><p>
+and <i>multirow</i> will position &ldquo;Common g text&rdquo; at the vertical
centre of the space defined by the other rows. Note that the rows
-that don't contain the "multi-row" specification must have empty
+that don&rsquo;t contain the &ldquo;multi-row&rdquo; specification must have empty
cells where the multi-row is going to appear.
-<p>The "<code>*</code>" may be replaced by a column width specification. In this
+<p>The &ldquo;<code>*</code>&rdquo; may be replaced by a column width specification. In this
case, the argument may contain forced line-breaks:
<blockquote>
<pre>
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ case, the argument may contain forced line-breaks:
\hline
\end{tabular}
</pre>
-</blockquote>
+</blockquote><p>
A similar effect (with the possibility of a little more
sophistication) may be achieved by putting a smaller table that lines
up the text into a <code>*</code>-declared <code>\</code><code>multirow</code>.
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ down one or other side of a table (with the help of the
<pre>
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|}
\hline
-\multirow{4}*{\rotatebox{90}{hi there}}
+\multirow{4}{*}{\rotatebox{90}{hi there}}
& Column g2a\\
& Column g2b \\
& Column g2c \\
@@ -63,10 +63,27 @@ down one or other side of a table (with the help of the
\hline
\end{tabular}
</pre>
-</blockquote>
+</blockquote><p>
(which gives text going upwards; use angle <code>-90</code> for text going
downwards, of course).
-<p><i>Multirow</i> is set up to interact with the <i>bigstrut</i>
+<p>To make a <code>\</code><code>multicolumn</code> multi-row &ldquo;cell&rdquo; in a table, you have to
+enclose a <code>\</code><code>multirow</code> inside a <code>\</code><code>multicolumn</code> &mdash; the other way
+around does not work, so:
+<blockquote>
+<pre>
+\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}\hline
+\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{\multirow{2}{*}{combined cells}}
+ &top right\\ \cline{3-3}
+\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{}
+ &middle right\\ \hline
+bottom left
+ &bottom center
+ &bottom right\\ \hline
+\end{tabular}
+</pre>
+
+</blockquote><p>
+<i>Multirow</i> is set up to interact with the <i>bigstrut</i>
package (which is also discussed in the answer to
<a href="FAQ-struttab.html">spacing lines in tables</a>). You use an
optional argument to the <code>\</code><code>multirow</code> command to say how many of the