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I get an error message for a table. Strange thing is that I already have a similar table in my file, and thereby I don't get an error message... Can someone help me out?

The table is the following:

\begin{table}[htbp] \centering \caption{Impact on Trade Balance, in million US \$ change from base} \scalebox{1}{ \begin{tabular}{lccc} \hline\hline \multicolumn{4}{l}{Scenario A} \\ \hline & EFTA & CA & ROW \\[-10pt] & & & \\ Non-Agriculture & 3.1598 & -3.9787 & 1.0283 \\ Agriculture & -1.9159 & 3.2666 & -2.0655 \\ Services & -1.8677 & 0.3535 & 2.01962 \\\cline{2-12} Total & -0.6238 & -0.3586 & 0.9824 \\ \hline \multicolumn{4}{l}{Scenario B} \\ \hline Non-Agriculture & 2.5389 & -3.0276 & 0.6769 \\ Agriculture & -1.0801 & 1.9608 & -1.2893 \\ Services & -1.8290 & 0.7192 & 1.3302 \\\cline{2-12} Total & -0.3702 & -0.3476 & 0.7178 \\ \hline\hline \end{tabular}} \caption*{\scriptsize{Source: RunGTAP.}} \label{tbl:EffectsOnTradeBalance} \end{table}

The error message is the following:

! Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr. <template> \endtemplate l.2510 \end{tabular}} You have given more \span or & marks than there were in the preamble to the \halign or \valign now in progress.
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  • Why there is \scalebox{1} and many empty lines? Commented May 13, 2015 at 17:52
  • the \scalebox function allows us to manually scale the table if it is, for instance, too wide and doesn't fit on one A4 page.... the function is getting closed with a bracket after \end{tabular} ... Commented May 13, 2015 at 21:33

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The code

\cline{2-12}

requests a horizontal rule to span from column 2 through to column 12. However, you only have a 4-column tabular since you've used

\begin{tabular}{lccc}

You're probably interested in using \cline{2-4}.

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  • oh man!!!! you made my day... I've been looking for errors the whole day and couldn't find anything... maybe because I'm looking at too many tables and numbers. I somehow lost the overview!!! but you saved me!! thank you very much @Werner Commented May 13, 2015 at 17:33

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