Put a table* at the bottom of a page?

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In a two column document in LaTeX, is there any way to put a table* (a table spanning both columns) at the bottom of the page? The obvious doesn't work:

\begin{table*}[b]   % b!, hb, hb!, etc. doesn't work either
   %... a wide table
\end{table*}

score 54 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 24 '14 at 10:08

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(I just learned about this recently:) This can be solved by loading the stfloats package and specifying a figure placement of [bp] as usual. (The p should always be included in case the bottom placement can never be achieved.)

edited Jul 24 '14 at 10:08

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answered Sep 27 '10 at 14:40

Will Robertson

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it didn't work for me:/ – guillefix Jun 25 '21 at 19:50
I assumed it would be the same to use [hbtp], but that was not the case. I really had to change the placement to [bp] for the tamble to be placed on the bottom of the page. – Filipe Correia Feb 16 '23 at 16:04
Apparently this works also for top placement via [tp] or maybe [tp!]. – Noein Feb 15 '24 at 22:59

score 21 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 11 '16 at 14:19

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Use

\usepackage{dblfloatfix}

and thereof the command

\begin{table*}[!b]

This works better than stfloats, as stfloats jumbles up some figures occationally

edited Aug 11 '16 at 14:19

Stefan Pinnow

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answered Aug 11 '16 at 14:02

Subhendu Pandit

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new person question: how do I install a LaTeX package? – Micah Stubbs Sep 17 '19 at 21:51
looking for an existing question - it's not clear which one I want https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&q=install%20package – Micah Stubbs Sep 17 '19 at 21:52
this might be the answer https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12102/how-do-i-install-ctan-packages-on-mac-os-with-texshop – Micah Stubbs Sep 17 '19 at 21:53
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In my case dblfloatfix did not work, but stfloats did – noe Oct 01 '20 at 09:12
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I can confirm that dblfloatfix no longer appears to work, whereas stfloats does. – Mico Oct 11 '20 at 04:50
Neither worked for me, both still send the image to the bottom of the document. – Max Jun 13 '22 at 20:51
I would suggest trying one or the other of the two solutions, one worked for me. – Denis Cousineau Aug 10 '23 at 01:11

Put a table* at the bottom of a page?

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