Making LaTeX tables smaller

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I have a LaTeX table that looks like this    begin table   ht   centering  small  caption   bf Caption    begin tabular  l c c l c c c c c  field1  amp  field 2  amp           hline       the problem is that even with   small  the table is too big  since I use    usepackage setspace    doublespacing   in the header  How can I    Make the table single spaced  and  Make the table smaller     I d like it to fit on an entire page

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There is also the singlespace environment    begin singlespace   end singlespace

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http   en wikibooks org wiki LaTeX Tables Resize tables talks about two ways to do this   I used    scalebox 0 7      begin tabular             end tabular

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If you want a smaller table  e g  if your table extends beyond the area that can be displayed  you can simply change    usepackage paper a4paper  geometry  to  usepackage paper a3paper  geometry       Note that this only helps if you don t plan on printing your table out  as it will appear way too small  then

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You could add  singlespacing near the beginning of your table  See the setspace instructions for more options

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As well as  singlespacing mentioned previously to reduce the height of the table  a useful way to reduce the width of the table is to add  tabcolsep 0 11cm before the  begin tabular  command and take out all the vertical lines between columns  It s amazing how much space is used up between the columns of text  You could reduce the font size to something smaller than  small but I normally wouldn t use anything smaller than  footnotesize

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if it s too long for one page  use the longtable package  and if it s too wide for the page  use p width  in place of l r  or c for the column specifier  you can also go smaller than  small  i e   footnotesize and  tiny  I would consult the setspace package for options on how to remove the double space  though it s probably  singlespace or something like that

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