[Tex/LaTex] Centering a text in longtable

horizontal alignmenttables

I am having some difficulty with centering a text in a table. If you happen to have some spare time, please kindly enlighten me on the following problem.

Referring to the picture below, you could see that the word "Graph" is left aligned instead of center. How to make it centered? Could you please provide advice or guidance on the issue?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{array}

\newcommand{\tesplot}{%
\begin{tikzpicture}
[scale=.4,auto=center]
\node (n1) at (10.6,4.9) [draw, circle,fill=green!20] {1};
\node (n2) at (4,0.8) [draw, circle,fill=blue!20] {2};
\node (n3) at (3.8,11.4) [draw, circle,fill=green!20] {3};
\node (n4) at (0.1,6.4) [draw, circle,fill=green!20] {4};
\node (n5) at (3.6,3.4) [draw, circle,fill=blue!20] {5};
\node (n6) at (7.4,2.3) [draw, circle,fill=blue!20] {6};
\node (n7) at (9,10.4) [draw, circle,fill=green!20] {7};
\node (n8) at (18,10.8) [draw, circle,fill=green!20] {8};

\foreach \from/\to in {n6/n2,n2/n5,n5/n6}
\draw[blue] (\from) -- (\to);
\foreach \from/\to in {n1/n8,n8/n7,n7/n1,n3/n7,n4/n3}
\draw[green] (\from) -- (\to);
\foreach \from/\to in {n6/n1,n5/n4,n2/n4,n1/n5}
\draw[red] (\from) -- (\to);

\end{tikzpicture}
}
\begin{document}

\begin{longtable}{ l  l  l  l >{\centering\arraybackslash}m{7cm} }
\toprule
\multicolumn{5}{ c }{Convergence} \\
\midrule
Time & \multicolumn{2}{ c }{Information} & Graph & Description \\ 
\cmidrule(r){1-1}\cmidrule(lr){2-3}\cmidrule(lr){4-4}\cmidrule(l){5-5}
& Vertice & 8 & & \\[1cm] 
1 & ${P(1)}$ & 0.5 & 
\raisebox{-2.3cm}[50pt][50pt]{%
\tesplot} &  \raisebox{-0.1cm}[0pt][0pt]{%
\begin{minipage}[c]{2.8in}
Hello World akdjfasljdfkjasj dfjsadkflkjksad flkaskjdfsadlflkj safdalkjsfd sljdfkjasj         dfjsa sljdfkjasj dfjsadkflkjksad flkaskjd fsadlflkj safdalkjsfd sljdfkjasj dfjsadkflkjksad flkaskjdfsadl flkj safdalkjsfd dkflkjksad flkaskjdfsadlflkj safdalkjsfd
\end{minipage} } {%
} \\[1cm] 
& Chance & 0.5 & & \\[1cm]

\bottomrule
\end{longtable}

\end{document}

Best Answer

\multicolumn{1}{c}{Graph}

solved by Mico(https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5001/mico), thanks all, thanks a lot!!!!!!

Nice version

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{siunitx}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Table example}
\begin{tabular}{
  S[table-format=4.2]
  S[table-format=3.2]
}
\toprule
\textbf{Number} & \textbf{Probability} (\si{\percent}) \\
\midrule
   0    & 100    \\
 998.13 &  60    \\
1996.26 &  31.37 \\
2994.39 &  16.11 \\
3992.52 &   8.26 \\
4990.64 &   4.23 \\
5988.77 &   2.17 \\
6986.90 &   1.11 \\
7828.46 &   0.63 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Two table variant

Remarks:

The optional parameter of tabular or tabularx specifies, where the anchor of the table lies. t means the top element of the table (top rule or first row), b means the bottom line or last row. As default the table is vertically centered.
Horizontal placement. First use \centering instead of \centerline{...}. \centering centers the lines of the paragraph, whereas \centerline restricts the contents to a \hbox and does not warn, if the elements do not fit in the current line width. If the two tables fit in one line, then \hfill inbetween will move the left table to the left and right table to the right side of the text area. The weaker \hfil can be used, if the free space between the tables should be equally distributed to the left of the left table, the middle between the tables and to the right of the right table.

Full example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{siunitx}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Example with two tables}
\begin{tabular}[t]{
  S[table-format=4.2]
  S[table-format=3.2]
}
\toprule
\textbf{Number} & \textbf{Probability} (\si{\percent}) \\
\midrule
   0    & 100    \\
 998.13 &  60    \\
1996.26 &  31.37 \\
2994.39 &  16.11 \\
3992.52 &   8.26 \\
4990.64 &   4.23 \\
5988.77 &   2.17 \\
6986.90 &   1.11 \\
7828.46 &   0.63 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}\hfill
\begin{tabular}[t]{
  S[table-format=4.2]
  S[table-format=3.2]
}
\toprule
\textbf{Number} & \textbf{Probability} (\si{\percent}) \\
\midrule
   0    & 100    \\
 998.13 &  60    \\
1996.26 &  31.37 \\
2994.39 &  16.11 \\
4990.64 &   4.23 \\
5988.77 &   2.17 \\
7828.46 &   0.63 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Stretched to text width:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{siunitx}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Table example}
\begin{tabular*}{\linewidth}{
  l
  @{\extracolsep\fill}
  S[table-format=4.2]
  S[table-format=3.2]
  l
}
\toprule
& \textbf{Number} & \textbf{Probability} (\si{\percent}) \\
\midrule
&    0    & 100    \\
&  998.13 &  60    \\
& 1996.26 &  31.37 \\
& 2994.39 &  16.11 \\
& 3992.52 &   8.26 \\
& 4990.64 &   4.23 \\
& 5988.77 &   2.17 \\
& 6986.90 &   1.11 \\
& 7828.46 &   0.63 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular*}
\end{table}
\end{document}

With ugly lines

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Table example}
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{
  |S[table-format=4.2]|S[table-format=3.2]|
}
\hline
\multicolumn{1}{|X|}{\centering\textbf{Number}}
& \multicolumn{1}{X|}{\centering\textbf{Probability} (\si{\percent})} \\
\hline
   0    & 100    \\ \hline
 998.13 &  60    \\ \hline
1996.26 &  31.37 \\ \hline
2994.39 &  16.11 \\ \hline
3992.52 &   8.26 \\ \hline
4990.64 &   4.23 \\ \hline
5988.77 &   2.17 \\ \hline
6986.90 &   1.11 \\ \hline
7828.46 &   0.63 \\ \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Centering without alignment of numbers

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Table example}
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{
  |>{\centering\arraybackslash}X|
   >{\centering\arraybackslash}X<{\unskip~\%}|
}
\hline
\textbf{Number}
& \multicolumn{1}{X|}{\centering\textbf{Probability}} \\ \hline
   0    & 100    \\ \hline
 998.13 &  60    \\ \hline
1996.26 &  31.37 \\ \hline
2994.39 &  16.11 \\ \hline
3992.52 &   8.26 \\ \hline
4990.64 &   4.23 \\ \hline
5988.77 &   2.17 \\ \hline
6986.90 &   1.11 \\ \hline
7828.46 &   0.63 \\ \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}
\end{document}

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Nice version

Two table variant

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