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I have a long table in this format that starts in the middle of the first page. But when I populate the table, it moves to the second page instead of continuing from the first page. How can I do it?

\begin{tabular}{p{0.4\linewidth}p{0.6\linewidth}}
%    \toprule
    \multicolumn{1}{l}{\textbf{Requirements}} &        
    \multicolumn{1}{l}{\textbf{My Qualifications}} \\ 
%    \midrule
Education & 4 years experience.\\

Modeling & Have modeled.\\

%    \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
maximusdooku
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    @MaartenDhondt - Not a duplicate. The current posting is about allowing a line break inside the tabular material, not about keeping the entire tabular/table material "close" to either where it's mentioned or the location where the tabular code occurs. – Mico Feb 22 '17 at 06:20

2 Answers2

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If you want the table to include a page break use longtable (\usepackage{longtable}) and then replace tabular with longtable. Also, do take care not to let the width of the longtable (or the tabular, for that matter) environment exceed the width of the textblock.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{longtable,calc,booktabs}
\begin{document}

\begin{longtable}{@{} p{0.4\linewidth-\tabcolsep} p{0.6\linewidth-\tabcolsep} @{}}

\toprule
\textbf{Requirements} & \textbf{My Qualifications} \\ 
\midrule
\endfirsthead

\bottomrule
\endlastfoot

Education & 4 years experience.\\
Modeling & Have modeled.\\
\end{longtable}

\end{document}
Mico
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TeXnician
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    +1. I've taken the liberty of editing your code to make it into an MWE and to set the width of the longtable equal to \textwidth. – Mico Feb 22 '17 at 05:42
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As you clearly want your table to spread over the whole line width, the best in my opinion would be to load the \tablex package, which brings the functionalities of longtable to tabularx:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ltablex,booktabs}
\keepXColumns

\begin{document}

\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{}>{\hsize=0.8\hsize}X>{\hsize=1.2\hsize}X}@{}}

\toprule
\textbf{Requirements} & \textbf{My Qualifications} \\ 
\midrule
\endfirsthead

\bottomrule
\endlastfoot

Education & 4 years experience.\\
Modeling & Have modeled.\\
\end{tabularx}

\end{document}
Bernard
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