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I'm trying to find a method which allows me to have columns with automatic width which are also centered in horizontal and vertical direction, just like tabularx's X columntype just centered.

So here is was I tried so far:

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{tabularx,booktabs} \newcolumntype{Z}[0]{>{\centering\arraybackslash\let\newline\\\hspace{0pt}}X}% \begin{document} \begin{table} \begin{tabularx}{7cm}{l|X|X} & long\newline heading 1 & short heading\\ \toprule row 1 & 2314 & 2134 \end{tabularx} \end{table} \begin{table} \begin{tabularx}{7cm}{l|Z|Z} & long\linebreak heading 1 & short heading\\ \toprule row 1 & 2314 & 2134 \end{tabularx} \end{table} \end{document}

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The second is already almost what I want, just the vertical centering of the third column is missing. How to fix this?

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for vertical centering you want an m column rather than a p column to sit behind X

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{tabularx,booktabs} \newcolumntype{Z}[0]{>{\centering\let\newline\\\arraybackslash\hspace{0pt}}X}% \renewcommand\tabularxcolumn[1]{m{#1}} \begin{document} \begin{table} \begin{tabularx}{7cm}{l|X|X} & long\newline heading 1 & short heading\\ \toprule row 1 & 2314 & 2134 \end{tabularx} \end{table} \begin{table} \begin{tabularx}{7cm}{l|Z|Z} & long\linebreak heading 1 & short heading\\ \toprule row 1 & 2314 & 2134 \end{tabularx} \end{table} \end{document}
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Just use the makecell package and its \thead command:

 \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tabularx,booktabs, makecell} \newcolumntype{Z}[0]{>{\centering\arraybackslash\let\newline\\\hspace{0pt}}X}% \begin{document} \begin{table} \begin{tabularx}{7cm}{l|X|X} &\thead{ long\\ heading 1} & \thead{short heading}\\ \toprule row 1 & 2314 & 2134 \end{tabularx} \end{table} \begin{table} \begin{tabularx}{7cm}{l|Z|Z} &\thead{long\\ heading 1} & \thead{short heading}\\ \toprule row 1 & 2314 & 2134 \end{tabularx} \end{table} \end{document}

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Note that with makecell, you can easily format the content of the head cells. Let me point that you shouldn't use vertical lines with booktabs: as you can see, they do not cut the horizontal ones.

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