Btukfyl

I have the following table and I am trying to give a specific length for column 1, 2 and 3 which stays fixed. I found a trick by adding an "invisible" row at the bottom (& multicolumn{1}{p{3.5cm}}{} & multicolumn{1}{p{3.5cm}}{}) but it doesn't seem a nice solution since I get obviously an empty row before my explanation of the table. Without that invisible row, although I put the sizes at the beginning of the table (begin{tabular}{m{8.2cm} m{3.5} m{3.5cm}}), the table just adapt to the content and it is not what I want.

Do you have any solution? It is the first time I do some table like that in Latex therefore I think the code is highly "inefficient and weird".

Thank you!

documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}

renewcommand{baselinestretch}{1.5}

renewcommandthesection{arabic{section}}

renewcommandthesubsection{thesection.arabic{subsection}}

usepackage{float}

usepackage{array}

usepackage{multirow}

usepackage{arydshln}

usepackage{geometry}

usepackage[font=small, justification=justified, format=plain]{caption}





begin{document}



begin{table}[H]

    centering

    caption{Title of the table} 

    label{my_label}

    begin{tabular}{m{8.2cm} m{3.5} m{3.5cm}}

        hline

        multirow{2}{*}{Bulletpoint Title} & multicolumn{2}{c}{Merged columns 2-3}

        \

        & multicolumn{1}{c}{column 2} & multicolumn{1}{c}{column 3} \

        hline

        begin{itemize}

            item Bulletpoint 1

            item Bulletpoint 2

        end{itemize}

        & multicolumn{1}{c}{abc}    & multicolumn{1}{c}{abc}\

        hdashline

        begin{itemize}

            item Bulletpoint 3

            item Bulletpoint 4

        end{itemize}

        & multicolumn{1}{c}{xyz}    & multicolumn{1}{c}{xyz} \

        hline

        Total & multicolumn{1}{c}{Total c1} & multicolumn{1}{c}{Total c2}\

        hline

        & multicolumn{1}{p{3.5cm}}{} & multicolumn{1}{p{3.5cm}}{}\

    end{tabular}

    caption*{footnotesize This table shows *COMMENT*}

end{table}



end{document}

documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}

renewcommand{baselinestretch}{1.5}

renewcommandthesection{arabic{section}}

renewcommandthesubsection{thesection.arabic{subsection}}

%usepackage{float}

usepackage{array, multirow}

usepackage{arydshln}

usepackage{geometry}

usepackage[font=small, justification=justified, format=plain]{caption}

usepackage{enumitem}  % new





begin{document}



begin{table}[htb]

setlist[itemize]{leftmargin=*,  % new

                  after=vspace{-0.6baselineskip}

                  }

    centering

    caption{Title of the table}

    label{my_label}

    begin{tabular}{m{8.2cm} *{2}{>{centeringarraybackslash}m{3.5cm}}}

        hline

multirow{2}{*}{Bulletpoint Title}

        & multicolumn{2}{c}{Merged columns 2-3}    \

        &   column 2    &   column 3                \

        hline

begin{itemize}

    item Bulletpoint 1

    item Bulletpoint 2

end{itemize}

        &   abc         &   abc                     \

        hdashline

begin{itemize}

    item Bulletpoint 3

    item Bulletpoint 4

end{itemize}

        &   xyz         &   xyz                     \

        hline

Total   &   Total c1    &   Total c2                \

        hline

    end{tabular}

    caption*{footnotesize This table shows *COMMENT*}

end{table}



end{document}

gives:

in above MWE i removed all unnecessary multicolumn{1}{c}{...}'s and empty rows, redefined column types that column contents are centered and for lists use the enumitem package.