How to wrap text in LaTeX tables

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I am creating a report in LaTeX which involves a few tables  I m stuck on that as my cell data in the table is exceeding the width of the page  Can I somehow wrap the text so that it falls into the next line in the same cell of the table   Is it somehow related to the table s width  But as it s overshooting the page s width  will it make a difference

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Use p width  for your column specifiers instead of l r c   begin tabular   p 1cm  p 3cm      This text will be wrapped  amp  Some more text     end tabular    EDIT   based on the comments   begin table  ht       centering      begin tabular  p 0 35 linewidth    p 0 6 linewidth         Column 1   amp  Column2     hline       This text will be wrapped  amp  Some more text          Some text here  amp  This text maybe wrapped here if its tooooo long         end tabular       caption Caption       label tab my label   end table   we get

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Another option is to insert a minipage in each cell where text wrapping is desired  e g     begin table  H   begin tabular  l   begin minipage  t  0 8 columnwidth   a very long line a very long line a very long line a very long line a very long line a very long line a very long line a very long line a very long line a very long line a very long line    end minipage  tabularnewline  end tabular   end table

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I like the simplicity of tabulary package    usepackage tabulary       begin tabulary   linewidth  LCL       hline     Short sentences       amp       amp  Long sentences                                                         hline     This is short         amp  173  amp  This is much loooooooonger  because there are many more words          This is not shorter   amp  317  amp  This is still loooooooonger  because there are many more words          hline  end tabulary     In the example  you arrange the whole width of the table with respect to  textwidth  E g 0 4 of it  Then the rest is automatically done by the package   Most of the example is taken from http   en wikibooks org wiki LaTeX Tables

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If you want to wrap your text but maintain alignment then you can wrap that cell in a minipage or varwidth environment  varwidth comes from the varwidth package   Varwidth will be  as wide as it s contents but no wider than X   You can create a custom column type which acts like  p xx   but shrinks to fit by using   newcolumntype M  1   gt   begin varwidth  t   1  l lt   end varwidth      which may require the array package  Then when you use something like  begin tabular  llM 2in   the first two columns we be normal left-aligned and the third column will be normal left aligned but if it gets wider than 2in then the text will be wrapped

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begin table    caption  Example of force text wrap    begin center     begin tabular   c c       hline    cell 1        amp    cell 2       hline    cell 3                 amp        cell 4  amp   amp  very big line that needs to be wrap      hline    cell 5        amp    cell 6       hline    end tabular     label table example    end center   end table

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With the regular tabular environment  you want to use the p width  column type  as marcog indicates  But that forces you to give explicit widths   Another solution is the tabularx environment    usepackage tabularx       begin tabularx   linewidth   r X       right-aligned foo  amp  long long line of blah blah that will wrap when the table fills the column width    end tabularx      All X columns get the same width  You can influence this by setting  hsize in the format declaration    gt   setlength hsize  5 hsize   X  gt   setlength hsize 1 5 hsize   X   but then all the factors have to sum up to 1  I suppose  I took this from the LaTeX companion   There is also the package tabulary which will adjust column widths to balance row heights  For the details  you can get the documentation for each package with texdoc tabulary  in TeXlive

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To change the text AB into A  r B in a table cell  put this into the cell position   makecell A    B    Before doing that  you also need to include package makecell

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Simple like a piece of CAKE   You can define a new column type like  L in this case  while maintaining the current alignment  c  r or l     documentclass article   usepackage array   newcolumntype L   gt   centering arraybackslash m 3cm     begin document    begin table       begin tabular   c L L            hline         Title 1  amp  Title 2  amp  Title 3             hline          one-liner  amp  multi-line and centered  amp   multicolumn 1  m 3cm    multi-line piece of text to show case a multi-line and justified cell                hline         apple  amp  orange  amp  banana             hline         apple  amp  orange  amp  banana             hline      end tabular   end table   end document

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