Making LaTeX tables smaller?
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
.
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.
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}
}