Wrap text around a tabular
This is a MWE for David's answer (supplement).
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{wrapfig,lipsum,booktabs}
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\begin{document}
This is where the table goes with text wrapping around it. You may
embed tabular environment inside wraptable environment and customize as you like.
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\begin{wraptable}{r}{5.5cm}
\caption{A wrapped table going nicely inside the text.}\label{wrap-tab:1}
\begin{tabular}{ccc}\\\toprule
Header-1 & Header-1 & Header-1 \\\midrule
2 &3 & 5\\ \midrule
2 &3 & 5\\ \midrule
2 &3 & 5\\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{wraptable}
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{\lipsum[2]
\par
Table~\ref{wrap-tab:1} is a wrapped table.
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\end{document}
The wrapfig
package provides this functionality.