Coloring a Multicolmn

Question

I am trying to color the following table:

\begin{tabular}{ |c|c|c|c|c| }
\hline
1,5h&               0,25h&   13h&    0,25h& 0,5h \\ \hline
Flight preparation& Taxiing& Flight& Taxiing&   Flight debrief \\ \hline
&   \multicolumn{3}{|c|}{Block time}&   \\ \hline
\multicolumn{5}{|c|}{Duty time} \\  \hline
\end{tabular}

Goal:

To make the cell "BLOCK TIME" in the color yellow.
To make the cell "DUTY TIME" in green.

Please note, I do not want to color a complete row or column. Just the CELL!

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score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 09 '14 at 16:42

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You can just load the xcolor package and use \cellcolor{color}.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}    % loads also »colortbl«

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{ |c|c|c|c|c| }
\hline
1,5h&               0,25h&   13h&    0,25h & 0,5h \\ \hline
Flight preparation& Taxiing& Flight& Taxiing&   Flight debrief \\ \hline
&  \multicolumn{3}{|c|}{\cellcolor{yellow} Block time} &   \\ \hline
\multicolumn{5}{|c|}{\cellcolor{green}  Duty time} \\  \hline
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

answered Jan 09 '14 at 16:42

Alenanno

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or just colortbl:-) – David Carlisle Jan 09 '14 at 16:43
@DavidCarlisle You're right... Never thought about that: is loading just the other package better? I feel like loading too much if this includes multiple purposes... and thanks! – Alenanno Jan 09 '14 at 16:44
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No xcolor is a nice package and probably people using colour will use it anyway and no one but me minds which package defines which feature, but \cellcolor comes from colortbl:-) (actually it was Donald Arseneau who suggested it) – David Carlisle Jan 09 '14 at 16:46
@DavidCarlisle I see. Thanks for the info! :) – Alenanno Jan 09 '14 at 16:47

Coloring a Multicolmn

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