Adjusting spacing between text and cell boundaries in tables in Beamer

Question

Using the following code from this question, how can the spacing between the text and cell margins (vertically and horizontally) be adjusted.

\documentclass{beamer}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\setbeamerfont{frametitle}{series=\bfseries}
\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash\hspace{0pt}}m{#1}}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[t]
\frametitle{Types of ...}
\begin{table}
    \bfseries
    \begin{tabular}{|C{.16\textwidth}|C{.16\textwidth}|C{.28\textwidth}|}
    \hline
    hello & \textcolor{blue}{hello} \textcolor{green}{hello} & receptors\\ \hline
    hello & \textcolor{blue}{hello} \textcolor{green}{hello} & \\ \hline
    hello & \textcolor{blue}{hello} \textcolor{green}{hello} & \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

Using \tabcolsep for more horizontal space (see: Adding space between columns in a table) and \arraystretch for more vertical space (see: Increase LaTeX table row height) should work. You could for example use \setlength{\tabcolsep}{20pt} \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{2} — leandriis, Oct 06 '18 at 13:25
The best solution to this problem is to simply ditch all these lines. See e.g. http://betterposters.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-data-prison.html — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Oct 06 '18 at 13:52
Thank you, but this solution add spacing between columns, not between text and cell boundaries. — Hany, Oct 06 '18 at 14:00

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 06 '18 at 16:56

see, if the following solution can help you:

\documentclass{beamer}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\setbeamerfont{frametitle}{series=\bfseries}

    \usepackage{cellspace,                  % for adding vertical space around cells' contents
                tabularx}
    \setlength\cellspacetoplimit{7pt}
    \setlength\cellspacebottomlimit{7pt}
    \newcolumntype{C}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}
    \addparagraphcolumntypes{C}
    \usepackage{ragged2e}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[t,fragile]
\frametitle{Types of ...}
    \renewcommand\tabularxcolumn[1]{m{#1}}  % for vertical centering of X cell contents
    \setlength\tabcolsep{12pt}              % increase horizontal space around cell         \begin{table}
\bfseries
\begin{tabularx}{0.75\linewidth}{|*{2}{>{\hsize=0.25\hsize}SC|}
                                       >{\hsize=0.50\hsize}C|
                                } \hline
hello & \textcolor{blue}{hello} \textcolor{green}{hello} & receptors\\ \hline
hello & \textcolor{blue}{hello} \textcolor{green}{hello} &          \\ \hline
hello & \textcolor{blue}{hello} \textcolor{green}{hello} &          \\ \hline
\end{tabularx}
    \end{table}
\end{frame}

Adjusting spacing between text and cell boundaries in tables in Beamer

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