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The MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{0pt}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|@{}p{0pt}@{}}
  \hline
  \rowcolor{cyan!70!black}
  Dummy & Text & \\[1em]
  \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

For some reason, I had to add a blank column at the end of the table, say @{}p{0pt}@{}. However, this behavior made the package colortbl sick. The width of the colored row didn't match the actual width of that row.

I searched TeX.SX and got a similar Q&A. In the answer to that question, David Carlisle, the author of the package colortbl, suggests that \tabcolsep could be set to 0pt and using >{\hspace{}} and <{\hspace{}}, from the package array, to insert extra space between columns.

Is there any better way to fix this problem (or both the two problems)? Any suggestion and/or clue would be appreciated.

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  • the "some reason" only affects m columns, and you would not want the first @{} in that case. Currently if you use @{} anywhere then the workaround that yor refer to is probably all there is unless someone wants to suggest a patch to colortbl. For the alignment problem Frank posted an answer here with a modified m column that avoided the issue, I'll post a link if I find it. – David Carlisle Dec 04 '14 at 14:19
  • http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/68732/vertical-alignment-in-table-m-column-row-size-problem-in-last-column/174166#174166 – David Carlisle Dec 04 '14 at 14:21

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