Resize a tabular object to textwidth

Question

I have a table which its width exceed the textwidth of the document, but I want reduce its size to fit the textwidth space.

I have tried the resizebox command but it doesn't work at all.

\begin{table}[h!]
  \centering
  \resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{  
  \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
  \hline
  One & Two &Three & Four & Five & Six & Seven & Eight & Nine & Ten & Eleven &
  Twelve & Thirteen & Fourteen\\

  \hline
  \hline
  $1.111$ & $2.222$ & $3.333$ & $4.444$ & $5.555$ & $6.666$ & $7.777$ &
  $8.888$ & $9.999$ & $0.000$ & $1.111$ & $2.222$ & $3.333$ & $4.444$\\
  \hline  
\end{tabular}
}
  \caption{Test Table}
  \label{tab:label_test}
\end{table}

The table keeps the same width and exceed the border of the page. I want resize the table, scaling all the tabular object without touch the caption fontsize.

How can I do that?

If I copy the code of @HarishKumar: Width adjustbox command

I think I have a problem with my latex package, because even the solution provided by @HarishKumar doesn't work... — nunzio13n, Mar 02 '14 at 14:15
The problem is that you are always viewing the DVI output. You schould run pdflatex and then view the PDF output! DVI viewers cannot show scaling and rotations. Or convert your dvi to pdf if you need that way. — , Mar 02 '14 at 14:22
Remark for any passer-by: scaling tables should be very low in the list of options. In the sense that one should never do it. Reducing the font size with \small or \footnotesize together with actions on \tabcolsep is most of the times sufficient to get by. — egreg, Nov 06 '23 at 10:10

score 78 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 02 '14 at 13:46

78

\resizebox should work provided you put \usepackage{graphicx}. But here is a better option with adjustbox package. With this, you can resize only if the table goes beyond \textwidth, otherwise not.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{showframe}   %% just for demo
\begin{document}
  \begin{table}[h!]
  \centering
  \begin{adjustbox}{max width=\textwidth}
  \begin{tabular}{*{14}{|c}|}%%{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
  \hline
  One & Two &Three & Four & Five & Six & Seven & Eight & Nine & Ten & Eleven &
  Twelve & Thirteen & Fourteen\\
  \hline
  \hline
  $1.111$ & $2.222$ & $3.333$ & $4.444$ & $5.555$ & $6.666$ & $7.777$ &
  $8.888$ & $9.999$ & $0.000$ & $1.111$ & $2.222$ & $3.333$ & $4.444$\\
  \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{adjustbox}
  \caption{Test Table}
  \label{tab:label_test}
\end{table}
\end{document}

enter image description here

answered Mar 02 '14 at 13:46

Thanks but your solution doesn't work for me, look at my edited question – nunzio13n Mar 02 '14 at 14:20
1

@nunzio13n It works. Some thing else is wrong. – Mar 02 '14 at 15:32
1

You may want to note that the \centering instruction isn't entirely redundant, as it will have an effect in case the natural width of the object contained in adustbox is less than \textwidth. – Mico Aug 15 '15 at 08:30
This solution works as long as you don't use XeLaTeX and hyperlinks in the table. See similar post. – patryk.beza May 06 '17 at 08:14
that is nice, solved my problem. but with \centering, all section titles and all text in the document somehow centered. After removing \centering, it looks Ok. – alim May 19 '17 at 02:50
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This is amazing! Worked perfectly - thank you! – TheEconomist Sep 03 '21 at 06:52
Thank you! It works perfectly for me. – Huyen May 22 '23 at 01:16
Thank you. It has helped me. \begin{adjustbox}{max width=0.58\textwidth} %\textwidth This helped in resizing the text and the box. – user8288477 Nov 06 '23 at 00:29

score 16 · Answer 2 · 2014-03-02T14:09:16.000

16

you have two unwanted spaces. Use

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{showframe}   %% just for demo
\begin{document}
  \begin{table}
  \resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{%
  \begin{tabular}{*{14}{|c}|}%%{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}\hline
  One & Two &Three & Four & Five & Six & Seven & Eight & Nine & Ten & Eleven &
  Twelve & Thirteen & Fourteen\\\hline\hline
  $1.111$ & $2.222$ & $3.333$ & $4.444$ & $5.555$ & $6.666$ & $7.777$ &
  $8.888$ & $9.999$ & $0.000$ & $1.111$ & $2.222$ & $3.333$ & $4.444$\\\hline
\end{tabular}%
}
  \caption{Test Table}\label{tab:label_test}
\end{table}
\end{document}

enter image description here

edited Mar 02 '14 at 14:09

answered Mar 02 '14 at 13:47

Thank you for your answer but even without the spaces, width the comment character %, the table keeps to exceed the border of the page – nunzio13n Mar 02 '14 at 14:05
That's not possible with your code! You must do something special. See my edited answer. – Mar 02 '14 at 14:09

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 15 '15 at 08:17

3

just put the scale in before \textwidth e.g. width=0.9\textwidth.

edited Aug 15 '15 at 08:17

Johannes_B

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answered Aug 15 '15 at 08:11

Michael

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Welcome, can you extend your answer a little bit Right now, it is quite short and seems to be more suited as a comment. – Johannes_B Aug 15 '15 at 08:17
This answer is insufficient, as it needs to be mentioned where to put this command and the effect. if set in wrong place, it just shrinks the table without shrinking the content. – PWillms Feb 08 '21 at 02:36
thanks this works – Lyrk Jan 24 '22 at 17:27

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 29 '17 at 17:16

1

Try playing with max width with 0.9 or 0.7. It shrinks the table further.

For e.g., \begin{adjustbox}{max width=0.77\textwidth}

answered Jun 29 '17 at 17:16

Benny

111

score -1 · Answer 5 · edited Sep 24 '21 at 10:35

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{showframe}   %% just for demo
\begin{document}
    \tiny
    \begin{table}[h]
         \resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{ %   
            \begin{tabular}{*{14}{|l|{0.6cm}}}%%{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}\hline
                One & Two &Three & Four & Five & Six & Seven & Eight & Nine & Ten & Eleven &
                Twelve & Thirteen & Fourteen\\\hline\hline
                1.111 & 2.222 & 3.333 & 4.444 & 5.555 & 6.666 & 7.777 &
                8.888 & 9.999 & 0.000 & 1.111 & 2.222 & 3.333 & 4.444\\\hline
            \end{tabular}
    %   }       
        \caption{Test Table}\label{tab:label_test}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

enter image description here.

I have removed all $ signs. They are not needed. I have set all columns to 0.6 cm. I have put \begin{table}[h] so that table begins at this height.

Your MWE contain error. Please correct it. – Zarko Sep 21 '21 at 11:17 — Zarko, Sep 21 '21 at 11:17

Resize a tabular object to textwidth

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