Table in Two Column

I am trying to generate a table in a two column document. However, the table also appears in the column settings. I want that table should appear in the one column settings in the float environment. The minimum working example is given below:

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your table perfectly fit in one column. what is the problem? beside unnecessary \multicolumn<1> <. >. i can't find anything wrong.

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I'm not sure I understand your requirements, but it looks to me like you want a table that occupies the width of a full column. If this is the case, you should look into using a tabular* environment with a width set to \columnwidth . Oh, and don't use both a \caption and a \caption* directive for one and the same figure -- it's abuse of notation, if not something worse.

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Second Addendum: Further analysis of the contents of the table environments shows that (a) it's not necessary to switch to \footnotesize and (b) it would useful, from the point of making the numeric information more readable, to align the numbers in the four data columns on their (implicit) decimal markers. This may be achieved by loading the siunitx package and employing the S column type.

Separately, since you're using the IEEEtran document class, I would not load the caption package, as doing so modifies the appearance of captions rather decisively. I would assume that you're using IEEEtran for a solid reason; you should thus be rather careful to change the layout and appearance of table and figure captions.

\documentclass[11pt,twocolumn,conference] \usepackage[T1] \usepackage \usepackage[utf8] \usepackage[english] \usepackage[verbose,margin=3cm] \usepackage \sisetup> \newcolumntype[1] % macro for a paragraph of filler text \newcommand\blurb %\flushbottom % may not be necessary \begin \section \blurb\blurb \begin[!htb] \setlength\tabcolsep \caption \label \centering This table provides the frequencies. \smallskip \begin>% l TTTT> \toprule Year & & & & \\ \midrule 2001& 126 & 16 & 2 & 144 \\ 2002& 114 & 9 & 4 & 127 \\ 2003& 115 & 7 & 1 & 123 \\ 2004& 114 & 6 & 4 & 124 \\ 2005& 104 & 5 & 8 & 117 \\ 2006& 96 & 3 & 6 & 105 \\ 2007& 93 & 2 & 4 & 99 \\ 2008& 93 & 2 & 2 & 97 \\ 2009& 85 & 2 & 11 & 98 \\ 2010& 83 & 0 & 7 & 90 \\ 2011& 74 & 0 & 12 & 86 \\ \midrule Total & 1097 & 52 & 61 & 1210 \\ \bottomrule \end \end \blurb\blurb\blurb\blurb \end