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I have a two-column document and what to inset a table. My problem is that the some of the columns in the table overlaps into the other side column. I have found a question which deals with generating a column spanning two columns. But I want to make the table fit within a column width. Any suggestions would be great? Does one have to resize the text or manually specify the column width?

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{scrartcl} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[margin=2.5cm]{geometry} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage[colaction]{multicol} \usepackage{hyperref} \usepackage{lineno} \usepackage{setspace} \usepackage{lipsum} \title{Table formatting} \author{The geniuses at SE} \begin{document} \maketitle \doublespacing \begin{multicols}{2} \section{Introduction} \lipsum[1-1] \begin{center} \begin{minipage}{\columnwidth} \centering \captionaboveof{table}{Distribution of XXX} \begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c} \textbf{Sex} & \textbf{[0-1]} & \textbf{[1--5)} & \textbf{[5--10)} & \textbf{[10--25)} & \textbf{25-50} & \textbf{[50+]} \\ \hline M & 61\% & 28\% & 4\% & -\% & 6\% & x\% \\ F & 60\% & 25\% & 5\% & 3\% & 7\% & x\% \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{minipage} \end{center} \lipsum[1-2] \end{multicols} \end{document}
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Here is one option, where you could just decrease the inter-column spacing; Instead of a regular \tabcolsep, I've reduced that to 35% of \tabcolsep:

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\documentclass[10pt]{scrartcl} \usepackage[margin=25mm,paper=a4paper]{geometry} \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage[colaction]{multicol} \usepackage{setspace} \usepackage{lipsum} \title{Table formatting} \author{The geniuses at SE} \begin{document} \maketitle \doublespacing \begin{multicols}{2} \section{Introduction} \lipsum[1-1] %\addvspace{\intextsep}% You may want to add this... \noindent \begin{minipage}{\columnwidth} \centering \captionaboveof{table}{Distribution of XXX} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{.35\tabcolsep} \begin{tabular}{ *{7}{c} } \toprule \textbf{Sex} & \textbf{[0-1]} & \textbf{[1--5)} & \textbf{[5--10)} & \textbf{[10--25)} & \textbf{[25-50)} & \textbf{[50+]} \\ \midrule M & 61\% & 28\% & 4\% & -\% & 6\% & x\% \\ F & 60\% & 25\% & 5\% & 3\% & 7\% & x\% \\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \end{minipage} \addvspace{\intextsep} \lipsum[1-2] \end{multicols} \end{document}

Since you included booktabs, I've used its rules.

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  • thanks, that seems to do it. Can you suggest any other methods, I am just beginning with latex. Commented Jan 18, 2016 at 22:29
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    @lukeg: Alternative methods (this one included) are subjective and depends heavily on what you have in your table. Some people resize the entire tabular by wrapping it inside \resizebox{\columnwidth}{!}{...}. But that resizes everything and not everyone likes it. Commented Jan 18, 2016 at 22:32

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