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I am trying to color every other grouping of 5 rows light gray, starting with the first 5 rows.
I have attempted to use the solution posted here Does something like rowcolors exist for groups of rows?
. However, there are several problems. My original (uncolored; see below) looks great. However, when I try to color the rows (see below) the pdf looks terrible with missing rows and the printed version starts 1 row to late ( i.e., the first 5 line should be gray). So in summary I would like the pdf to look as nice as the printed and have the coloring start 1 row sooner. I have attached compilable code to reproduce the document and images of the output on my end below.

Code

documentclass[letterpaper,11pt,oneside, notitlepage]{article}% calls document type

usepackage[usenames, dvipsnames, table, xcdraw]{xcolor}

usepackage{booktabs}% table utilities

usepackage{siunitx}% number and symbol alignment

usepackage{graphicx}

newcommandVRule[1][arrayrulewidth]{vrule width #1}



makeatletter

newcommand{groupedRowColors}[5][0]{% [#1: offset], #2: group size, #3: start line, #4: color 1, #5: color 2

% copied from xcolor.sty

globalrownum=z@

global@rowcolorstrue

@ifxempty{#4}%

    {def@oddrowcolor{@norowcolor}}%

    {def@oddrowcolor{gdefCT@row@color{CT@color{#4}}}}%

@ifxempty{#5}%

    {def@evenrowcolor{@norowcolor}}%

    {def@evenrowcolor{gdefCT@row@color{CT@color{#5}}}}%

% simplified (no check for if@rowcmd)

def@rowcolors{%

    if@rowcolors

        noalign{%

            relax

            ifnumrownum<#3

                @norowcolor

            % I have changed this check:

            else ifodd numexpr (rownum-#1)/#2relax

                @oddrowcolor

            else

                @evenrowcolor

            fi fi

        }%

    fi

}%

CT@everycr{@rowc@lorstheeverycr}%

ignorespaces

 }

makeatother



usepackage[letterpaper,bindingoffset=-.35in,%

left=1in,right=1in,top=.25in,bottom=.25in,%

footskip=.15in]{geometry}



begin{document}

thispagestyle{empty}

belowrulesep=0pt

aboverulesep=0pt

heavyrulewidth=2pt



begin{table}[t!]

begin{tabular}[l]{|p{.6in}|p{2.46in}|p{1in}|p{2.46in}| }

toprule

multicolumn{4}{!{VRule[2pt]}l!{VRule[2pt]}}{}\

multicolumn{4}{!{VRule[2pt]}l!{VRule[2pt]}}{textbf{Date}rule{.8in}{.1pt} hspace{.69in} textbf{Crew}rule{2.4in}{.1pt}hspace{1.2in} textbf{Page}rule{.2in}{.1pt}  textbf{of}rule{.25in}{.1pt}} \

multicolumn{4}{!{VRule[2pt]}l!{VRule[2pt]}}{}\

multicolumn{4}{!{VRule[2pt]}l!{VRule[2pt]}}{textbf{Species}rule{.95in}{.1pt}hfill textbf{Location}rule{.95in}{.1pt}hfill textbf{Project}rule{.95in}{.1pt}}\

multicolumn{4}{!{VRule[2pt]}l!{VRule[2pt]}}{}\

bottomrule

end{tabular}

end{table}



vspace*{-2.75baselineskip}

begin{centering}

begin{table}[bh!]

groupedRowColors{5}{1}{gray!20}{white} %<------line that is supposed to color by group

begin{tabular}{!{VRule[2pt]}p{.6in}|p{2.46in}|p{1in}|p{2.46in}!{VRule[2pt]}}

    toprule

    textbf{Count} & textbf{PIT Tag #} & textbf{Length(TL)} & textbf{Comments}\

    bottomrule

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toprule

multicolumn{4}{!{VRule[2pt]}l!{VRule[2pt]}}{textbf{Scanned}rule{.6in}{.1pt}hfill textbf{Entered}rule{.6in}{.1pt}hfill textbf{Checked}rule{.6in}{.1pt}hfill textbf{Double Checked}rule{.6in}{.1pt}}\

bottomrule

end{tabular}

end{table}

end{centering}

vspace*{-1baselineskip}

smalltextit{textbf{*} Max 40 fish per sheet}hspace{.5in}textbf{Notes:}



end{document}

This is what the original pdf looks like without coloring:

This is what it looks like after I apply the solution:

PDF

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