Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Formatting rows of a table

[albart]

Hello forum,

for a presentation, I would like to sequentially highligh rows of a table. Therefore, I simply use different copies of one table and then make the letters of the row which I want to emphasize red with function \textcolor{red}{what should be red}:

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\documentclass{beamer}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \begin{center}
    \begin{tabular}{llll}
      1 & 2 & 3 & 4\\
      \hline
      1&0.77&0.67&0.60\\
      2&0.75 &0.67&0.65\\
      \textcolor{red}{3}&\textcolor{red}{0.66} &\textcolor{red}{0.66}&\textcolor{red}{0.67}\\
      \hline\\
    \end{tabular}
  \end{center}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
  \begin{center}
    \begin{tabular}{llll}
      1 & 2 & 3 & 4\\
      \hline
      1&0.77&0.67&0.60\\
      \textcolor{red}{3}&\textcolor{red}{0.66} &\textcolor{red}{0.66}&\textcolor{red}{0.67}\\
      2&0.75 &0.67&0.65\\
      \hline\\
    \end{tabular}
  \end{center}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

The problem is that I need to write \textcolor{red}{..} before each cell in the row. Is there a way to set the color or another format of the row with a simple macro? Putting the whole row in the macro did not work.

Thanks in advance,

Albart

[renno]

Hello there,

I suggest using the colortbl package. It offers commands such as \cellcolor and \rowcolor. I tried using \rowcolor, but could not overlay it using \only or \onslide commands from beamer. Maybe you can have a go with it. Below, you can have both rows highlighted at different slides with one frame only.

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\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage{colortbl}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \begin{center}
    \begin{tabular}{llll}
      1 & 2 & 3 & 4\\
      \hline
      1&0.77&0.67&0.60\\
      \only<2->{\cellcolor{blue!10}}2& \only<2->{\cellcolor{blue!10}}0.75 & \only<2->{\cellcolor{blue!10}}0.67& \only<2->{\cellcolor{blue!10}}0.65\\
      \only<1->{\cellcolor{blue!10}}3& \only<1->{\cellcolor{blue!10}}0.66 & \only<1->{\cellcolor{blue!10}}0.66 & \only<1->{\cellcolor{blue!10}}0.67 \\
      \hline\\
    \end{tabular}
  \end{center}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Cheers,

[albart]

Hello Renne,

thanks. I actually used the colortbl package but was not satisfied with the result. I would prefer to have the characters of the row which I want to emphasize in a different color and keep the background as it was.

Regards,

Albart