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Beautiful tables in Latex

May 22, 2009, 4:59 pm

Producing tables is latex is not an easy task. Fortunately I found a very handy macro that transforms Excel tables into Latex code. It is written by Joachim Marder and can be obtained here. If you use OpenOffice you can take a look at calc2latex. With the table creation problem solved, now we can focus on improving the style. We are going to need the following packages:

\usepackage[dvipsnames,usenames]{color} 
\usepackage{array} 
\usepackage{colortbl} 
\usepackage{booktabs}

Next we specify some formatting commands:

%increase the column separation and the cell height 
\renewcommand{tabcolsep}{0.25cm} 
\renewcommand{arraystretch}{2} 
%We can define our custom colors in RGB format 
\definecolor{tableheading}{rgb}{0.82,0.82,0.82} 
\definecolor{softblue}{rgb}{0.8,0.8,1} %Change the bar color 
\arrayrulecolor{ForestGreen}

… and voila! Latex has produced a very stylish table.

picture14 Beautiful tables in Latex

This is the full latex source code: 

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report} 
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} 
\usepackage{ucs} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage{amsfonts} 
\usepackage{amssymb} 
\usepackage{makeidx} 
\usepackage[dvipsnames,usenames]{color} 
\usepackage{array} \usepackage{colortbl} 
\usepackage{booktabs} 
\renewcommand{tabcolsep}{0.25cm} 
\renewcommand{arraystretch}{2} 
\definecolor{tableheading}{rgb}{0.82,0.82,0.82} 
%definecolor{totalcolor}{rgb}{1,0.7,0.7} 
%definecolor{firstcolumncolor}{rgb}{0.7,1,0.7} 
\definecolor{softblue}{rgb}{0.8,0.8,1} 
\arrayrulecolor{ForestGreen} 
 
\begin{document} 
% Table generated by Excel2LaTeX from sheet 'material' 
\begin{table}[!h] 
\centering 
\begin{tabular}{ccccc} 
\toprule 
\rowcolor{tableheading} {bf ID} & {bf Description} & {bf Price} & {bf Redeem period} & {bf Redeemed cost} \ 
\midrule 
M1 & PC 1 & 500,00 & 9,00 & 150,00 \ 
\midrule 
M2 & PC 2 & 500,00 & 9,00 & 150,00 \ 
\midrule 
M3 & Server 1 & 1.000,00 & 9,00 & 250,00 \ 
\midrule \textit{Total} &  &  & & multicolumn{1}{>{columncolor{softblue}}c}{550,00} \ 
\bottomrule 
\label{tab:test} 
\end{tabular} 
\caption{Test table} 
\end{table} 
\end{document}
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