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I am trying to utilise all the whitespace in a two column (ieee) format document.

A set of tables must stay grouped on the same page, thus I've nested them under {table*}. Having done that, I now have some unutilised space marked in red as displayed in the image below.

Is there a way to adjust the height of the right hand side column to fill up the whitespace? Or, could you please suggest an alternative solution?

Thanks, Gin

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    if you are prepared to do manual adjustment you can add \vspace*{-...} at the column break to bring up the start of the second column. – David Carlisle Mar 16 '16 at 23:40
  • Manually, there's all kinds of wonders you can do. Is this for a submission to a journal? If so, they'll probably question it though. Could you provide us with your constraints or limitations? – Werner Mar 17 '16 at 00:11
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    Another possibility is to combine a table* and table, or possibly several tables. Using afterpage you can control what page they all appear on (assuming a clear table queue). See http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/285146/wrapping-images-on-different-pages/285153?s=11|0.0681#285153 – John Kormylo Mar 17 '16 at 03:17
  • Thanks for your replies!

    Werner, this is for a workshop. There aren't any guidelines apart from keeping the text within column margins.

    I will try John's solution for now.

    David, this will be my last resort as this solution is very sensitive to edits elsewhere.

     – Gin Mar 17 '16 at 10:22
  • Have you tried wrapping the text around the tables like in this example: Wrap text around a tabular ? – BenK-G Mar 17 '16 at 16:24
  • BenK, in the end, I have decided to set floats strictly to [t] and played a little bit with \vspace. A case-specific workaround that cascades down on any further modification. Very unadvisable :). – Gin Oct 05 '16 at 14:40

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