How can i convert the tabular into longtable

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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}

Welcome to TeX.SX! A tip: If you indent lines by 4 spaces, they'll be marked as a code sample. You can also highlight the code and click the "code" button (with "{}" on it). — Xavier, May 09 '13 at 02:50
Also, for the future, please add a minimal working example (MWE) that starts with \documentclass{...}, ends with \end{document} and is verified to compile / produce the error you need help with. It will be much easier for us to reproduce your situation and find out what the issue is :) — Xavier, May 09 '13 at 02:52
Sorry, I forgot to mention in my answer that you also need to get rid of the surrounding table environment and put the caption inside the longtable. I've edited my answer as well as your code on sharelatex. — Xavier, May 09 '13 at 04:43

Xavier · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-09T04:44:13.520

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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.

edited May 09 '13 at 04:44

answered May 09 '13 at 02:40

Xavier

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Can you please make chnage here because i am not getting it to work https://www.writelatex.com/174546bmvnqt – user17 May 09 '13 at 03:16
thanks buddy , that worked. One last thing if you can help me. How can i add the timeand date on the top righthand side corner in small font on first page. Like generated on bla bla – user17 May 09 '13 at 04:57
@user17 Just do a search for fancyhdr on this site :) – Xavier May 09 '13 at 04:58

How can i convert the tabular into longtable

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