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I have a table that looks like this crude paint drawing

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The table represents employees grouped by the company they belong to. I have a table header for the Company (name, address, city, state, etc.). How do I add a header to the employees to make it more clear what is being displayed? Particularly the non-obvious fields such as 40 and 2004.

I've explored two options I am not thrilled about:

  1. Adding an indented header under the company header. This looks strange and it makes it hard to line up the values with your eyes.
  2. Adding a header on each and every company grouping. This is redundant and looks strange for companies with few employees.

Is there a better way?

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  • Isn't the most common way to show the normal row headers and no headers for the group? The group name (row) should be self-describing. Checkout samples like examples.sencha.com/extjs/6.2.0-ea/examples/kitchensink/…
    – Timo
    Commented Jul 6, 2016 at 15:15
  • @Timo generally, yes. But the group also has some numbers that need headings to describe what they are, I didn't include that in my drawing...
    – MrZander
    Commented Jul 6, 2016 at 15:43

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Maybe a tabular data table is not best way to display this information? Perhaps consider using the card UI metaphor where you can dedicate more space to data and their labels:

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Note: depending on the data, some information does not need a label because the data describes their purpose.

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  • This could work. I still feel it is repetitive, but I can't argue it looks bad. Thank you!
    – MrZander
    Commented Jul 6, 2016 at 15:44

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