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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 6-7-3 on page I-477 in "multirow --- Vertical alignment in tables".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
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%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{207.0pt}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{multirow}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|p{25mm}|l|}     \hline
\multirow{4}{14mm}{Text in column 1 (4 rows)}
 &amp; C2a &amp; C3a                &amp; C4a \\
 &amp; C2b &amp; \multirow{2}{=}
          {Spanning 2 rows} &amp; C4b \\
 &amp; C2c &amp;                    &amp; C4c \\
 &amp; C2d &amp; C3d                &amp; C4d \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
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