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It's my first time utilizing latex, and I can’t get rid of this problem.

im doing an article with two columns, using \begin{multicols}{2} but the problem, is that when I put a table with \begin{tabular} the text inside its really big, so, the text cross the to the other column of the article and it superpose the text of the second column. I would really appreciate the help. thank you!

franco
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    Welcome to TeX.SX! You can have a look at our starter guide to familiarize yourself further with our format. Please make your code compilable (if possible), or at least complete it with \documentclass{...}, the required \usepackage's, \begin{document}, and \end{document}. That may seem tedious to you, but think of the extra work it represents for TeX.SX users willing to give you a hand. Help them help you: remove that one hurdle between you and a solution to your problem. – Astrinus Jun 03 '15 at 15:25
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    Hiya, franco, welcome to our site! We'd certainly love to try and help you, but it'd be great if you could help us a little bit by providing what we call a minimum working example. There's a few ways to get one; one possible method is to copy your file, and then start stripping the copy down until you have the smallest possible one that demonstrates the problem. Once you have this file, if you could add it to your question, someone might be able to take it from there! Again, welcome! – cmhughes Jun 03 '15 at 15:26
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    search for wide table on the site you will find lots of answers, most likely your tabular has something like {cccc} for 4 columns that do not allow lin ebreaking, you probably want {p{1cm}p{1cm}p{1cm}p{1cm}} for 4 1cm wide columns (or whatever size you need) – David Carlisle Jun 03 '15 at 15:27
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    Have you tried using a table* environment to encase the tabular material? A table* enviroment spans both text columns. – Mico Jun 03 '15 at 16:19
  • There is also \resizebox{.99\columnwidth}{...} from the graphicx and adjustbox packages. – John Kormylo Jun 03 '15 at 16:51

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There is a simple way: use the strip environment, from the cuted package, a component of the sttools bundle:

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}

\usepackage{cuted}
\usepackage{lipsum, array, booktabs}
\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-2]
\begin{strip}
  \centering

  \begin{tabular}{*{3}{p{0.25\textwidth}}}
    \toprule
    Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
      & Text text text text text text text text text text text text text
      & Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah \\
    \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}
\end{strip}
\lipsum[4-6]
\end{document}

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Bernard
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