[Tex/LaTex] How to i convert the tabular into longtable

longtable

I have this report and I can be as long as 40 pages. My current setting is cutting it on one page only.

I am very new to latex and I am just copy pasting from internet. If you guys can fix that.

This is the working copy of that

https://www.writelatex.com/174546bmvnqt

\subsection{Current Students}
\begin{table}[H]
  \caption{Current Objects }
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{*{4}{|p{4cm}}{|p{7cm}}}
    \hline\hline
    \rowcolor{orange}  
    Proponent                     &Statutory Process        &Student Name                 &Student Region          &Subjects\\
    \hline\hline
    Nevertheless, the natural ... &EP Act Environmental ... &With this clarification, ... &[uNorthwest Transition] &
      \begin{tabular}{*{1}{|p{0.5cm}}{|p{6cm}}}
        \hline\hline
        \rowcolor{orange}
        \# &Subject Type      \\
        \hline
        \rowcolor{white}
        1 &Research           \\\hline
        2 &Restoration        \\\hline
        3 &Research           \\\hline
        4 &Land aquisition    \\\hline
        5 &Onground management\\\hline
      \end{tabular}\\
    \hline
    Of course, the ...            &EP Act Clearing ...      &Of course, the ...           &[uGibson Desert]        &
      \begin{tabular}{*{1}{|p{0.5cm}}{|p{6cm}}}
        \hline\hline
        \rowcolor{orange}
        \# &Subject Type      \\
        \hline
        \rowcolor{white}
        1 &Education          \\\hline
        2 &Land aquisition    \\\hline
        3 &Subject funds      \\\hline
        4 &Other              \\\hline
        5 &Restoration        \\\hline
        6 &Recovery plans     \\\hline
        7 &Subject funds      \\\hline
      \end{tabular}
  \end{tabular}
\end{table}

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To use longtable, add this to your preamble

\usepackage{longtable}

and then replace every \begin{tabular} by \begin{longtable} and \end{tabular} by \end{longtable}.

You also need to get rid of any surrounding table environment, and push an eventual caption inside the longtable.

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The following achieves what you're after (and is possible even without multirow):

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array,longtable,multirow}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{array,longtable,multirow}
\begin{document}
\begin{longtable}{|>{\bfseries}l|>{\bfseries}l|*{4}{l|}}
  \hline
  \multicolumn{2}{|l|}{} & \textbf{QR Codes} & \textbf{PDF417} & \textbf{DataMatrix} & \textbf{Maxi Code}  \\
  \hline
  \multirow{3}{*}{Datacapacity} & Numeric        & 7.089          & 2.710       & 3.116     & 138  \\ \cline{2-6}
                                & Alphanumeric   & 4.269          & 1.850       & 2.355     & 93   \\ \cline{2-6}
                                & Bytes          & 2.953          & 1.018       & 1.556     & \\
  \hline
  \multicolumn{2}{|l|}{Pros}    & Great capacity & Great capacity & Little size & High read  \\
  \multicolumn{2}{|l|}{}        & High read      &                &             &  \\
  \hline
\end{longtable}
\end{document}

I've avoided \parbox and inserted an additional row. You could use a nested tabular if you want lines broken inside the cell. For example,
```
\begin{tabular}[t]{@{}l@{}}
  Great capacity \\
  High read
\end{tabular}
```
The use of [t] aligns the tabular at the top, while @{} removes any column padding, on both sides.
For ease of use, the column specification of *{4}{l|} repeats l| 4 times.
You could use p-columns, but then you need to specify the widths in such a way that the table fits within the text block (horizontally). Your code snippet already has 5 columns of width .18\textwidth, and then a single column of width .1\textwidth, totalling \textwidth. However, there is still padding around each column (roughly 2\tabcolsep+\arrayrulewidth).

Without more detail on the size of your text block (or page orientation), it's difficult discussing alternatives to your table.

Finally, table representations are sprinkled with fairy dust if you consider the booktabs package. Moreover, there's little use in a longtable when your table is not that long...

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