Stop table going off page

Question

I'm aware that my table is too wide as it keeps going off the page on the right.

Is there a way to fix this?

I'm using lyx as I am a learner.

Many users end up here when they are actually searching for how to wrap text in a table row. Answer is here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/332712/getting-text-to-wrap-in-lyx-table-cells — Nav, Apr 03 '20 at 05:31

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 03 '20 at 07:37

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\noindent\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{%
... your tabular ...
}

In LyX insert the two lines in ERT (Evil Red Text) mode (Ctrl-L) just before and after your tabular. In the documents preamble add \usepackage{graphicx} if not already present.

This is how you add a new package: Use custom latex package in LyX

edited Apr 03 '20 at 07:37

John David

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answered Mar 29 '12 at 11:39

it works! but I'm getting a compilation error on lyx. Any idea on how to solve it? (again, it is able to compile the pdf) – Rho Jul 06 '14 at 17:45
what error message? Did yoo loaded graphicx? – Jul 06 '14 at 19:28
If you are getting an error. Try switching out of longtable mode by right clicking the table-->More-->Settings-->and unchecking longtable – StatsStudent Mar 10 '16 at 04:08
This does the wrong thing. It scales the entire table instead of doing overflow in the columns. – Dmitri Nesteruk Oct 05 '16 at 10:31
it depends on what you want! – Oct 05 '16 at 10:49
It's worth noting that if your table is inside a float, the LaTeX code in the ERT goes inside the float environment as well – inspectorG4dget Aug 25 '17 at 17:51
@Herbert, I used this but does not work. – jeza Nov 13 '18 at 13:04
Then your image is too big. Try \resizebox{!}{0.9\textheight}{...} – Nov 14 '18 at 10:22
Is it possible to integrate this into the preamble such that it auto-boxes LyX tables? It may be impossible because LyX uses its own thing \begin_inset Tabular. – Oliver Dec 09 '20 at 14:26

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 08 '12 at 01:35

You can fix the width of the table to fit the width of your general text.

To fix the width of the table in LyX 2.0, right-click in a cell in the column, move to More... and choose Settings.... In the Table Settings tab, you can set the value near the bottom, under Table-wide settings.

This, however, will set the width of your table, but not the content of the table. If, e.g., you have a cell with a lot of text that extends beyond the margin, then also pick a width for that (those) column(s) under Column settings in the same tab. This will also allow line breaks in the text.

That should be the selected answer, as the current one doesn't use LyX capabilities, but hard coded directives \noindent\resizebox — mins, Apr 29 '23 at 11:12

Stop table going off page

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