I have a wide table in my two-column paper. When I use \begin{table*} instead of \begin{table}, although the table becomes on wide, but it goes to the next page and I have limit on the number of pages. Is is possible to force my table to be on the same page it is referred? I read How to force a figure and a table to stay on the same page in LaTeX? and Get a table and figure on the same page with captions & labels and searched a lot but I couldn't find the answer.
[Tex/LaTex] Force table* to stay in the current page
tablestwo-column
Related Solutions
In the shown example the caption will always be on the same page as the table (tabular) because they are inside a table float which doesn't allow page breaks.
Possibilities why the caption could move:
- You do not place them into a
tablefloat, e.g. because you want to place them at a specific position and do not want them to float. In this case (actually all cases) it is a good idea to not have an empty line between\captionand\begin{tabular}because this adds a paragraph between both! Also you can place both then into a box, e.g. inside aminipageenvironment which will glue them together so that they are not split across pages. - You are using a special style for
table, like the ones provided by thefloatpackage. Then the caption will be placed at the position defined by the style, not by your code. However, the caption would still be always at the same page as the content.
To guarantee that they will remain together, use either one minipage (if the object doesn't have to be treated as floating) or just one floating environment for both the figure and the table; the right type of caption can then be obtained, in both cases, using \captionof from the capt-of (or caption) packages; the example below shows both possibilities:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{capt-of}
\begin{document}
\noindent\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=6cm]{examplefigure}
\captionof{figure}{Example figure caption (non-floating)}
\label{fig:examplenf}
\captionof{table}{Example Table (non-floating)}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
\hline
column1a & column2a \\
column1b & column2b \\
column1c & column2c \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:examplenf}
\end{minipage}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=6cm]{examplefigure}
\caption{Example figure caption (floating)}
\label{fig:examplefl}
\captionof{table}{Example Table (floating)}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
\hline
column1a & column2a \\
column1b & column2b \\
column1c & column2c \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:examplefl}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
Best Answer
if for your table is enough space after the point of its insertion, the package
stfloatscan help you.