How to wrap text in tabular

Question

Since I have multiple column I want to wrap text but can't find suitable code for it. How can I do that in Latex?

I used the following command:

\begin{table}
\resizebox{1\textwidth}{!}{
\begin{tabular}{lcccccc} \hline  \hline 
Sample window & Probability cutoff value & Crises Correctly called (\%) & Non-crises correctly called (\%) & Missed crises & False Alarm &  \\ \hline

 \hline
\end{tabular}}
\end{table}

And that gives something like below:

I want to create something like below instead:

Don't use resizebox on a tablar as this will lead to inconsistent and sometimes illegibly small font sized. — leandriis, Dec 27 '19 at 12:41
You might wan to use fixed width p or m type columns instead of c columns. If your table will also contain numbers, you might want to ge for S type columns from siunitx (alignment of numbers) in combination with \thead from makecell for the table headers. — leandriis, Dec 27 '19 at 12:42
See https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12703/how-to-create-fixed-width-table-columns-with-text-raggedright-centered-raggedlef — Savan Patel, Dec 27 '19 at 15:20
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score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 27 '19 at 12:47

With \thead from makecell (as I suspect that there will be numbers in the table, S type columns from siunitx might come in handy to align them):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{makecell}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{lcccccc} 
\toprule
\thead{Sample\\ window} & \thead{Probability\\ cutoff value} & \thead{Crises\\ Correctly\\ called (\%)} & \thead{Non-crises\\ correctly\\ called (\%)} & \thead{Missed\\ crises} & \thead{False\\ Alarm} &  \\ 
\midrule

\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\end{document}

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 27 '19 at 12:43

Maybe with tabularx?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}
\begin{table} 
 \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{X*{5}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}} 
 \hline \hline 
 Sample window & Probability cutoff value & Crises Correctly called (\%) &
 Non-crises correctly called (\%) & Missed crises & False Alarm  \\ 
 \hline
\end{tabularx} 
\end{table}
\end{document}

Mico · Answer 3 · 2020-03-14T21:21:46.070

Here's another tabularx-based solution, which shows how to set up unequal column widths. Furthermore, it employs the caption package to format the appearance of the caption to the style shown in the screenshot, and it employs the line-drawing macros of the booktabs package (\toprule, \midrule, and \bottomrule) instead of \hline\hline.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx,ragged2e,booktabs}
\renewcommand{\tabularxcolumn}[1]{m{#1}}
\newcolumntype{L}{>{\RaggedRight\arraybackslash}X}
\newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{\Centering\arraybackslash%
        \hsize=#1\hsize\linewidth=\hsize}X}

\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup{justification=RaggedRight, 
              singlelinecheck=false,
              labelfont=bf,
              labelsep=period,
              skip=0.25\baselineskip}

\usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath} % optional

\begin{document}
\setcounter{table}{2} % optional
\renewcommand{\tabcolsep}{3pt} % default: 6pt
\begin{table}
\caption{Logit EWS: In-sample and out-of-sample performances}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{} L *{3}{C{1}} *{2}{C{0.9}} C{1.2} @{}} 
\toprule
Sample windows & Probability cutoff value & 
Crises correctly called (\%) & Non-crises correctly called (\%) & 
Missed crises & False alarms & Crisis prob.\ given alarm \\ 
\midrule
1995--06 & 0.06 & 83.3 & 53.5 & 16.7 & 46.5 & 0.26 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}
\end{document}

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 27 '19 at 15:51

If you want to set up the columns for the data, use \multicolumn for the titles. This divides the columns evenly.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{showframe}% alignment tool
\newlength{\tempdima}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\tempdima=\dimexpr \textwidth/7 - 2\tabcolsep\relax
\small
\begin{tabular}{lcccccc} \hline\hline 
\multicolumn{1}{p{\tempdima}}{Sample window} & 
\multicolumn{1}{p{\tempdima}}{Probability cutoff value} & 
\multicolumn{1}{p{\tempdima}}{Crises Correctly called (\%)} & 
\multicolumn{1}{p{\tempdima}}{Non-crises correctly called (\%)} & 
\multicolumn{1}{p{\tempdima}}{Missed crises} & 
\multicolumn{1}{p{\tempdima}}{False Alarm} &
\multicolumn{1}{p{\tempdima}}{(not used)}  \\ \hline
 \\
 \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Sveinung · Answer 5 · 2019-12-30T10:27:50.453

Here is three different examples on how you can set your tabulars either

using tabularx,
a combination of tabularx and fixed width w-columns from the array packages or
a combination of tabular* and dcolumn.

In the two first example and except for the first column, I suggest setting all columns right aligned, also the headings. The are are so dominant so I reduced the font size. As you will see, I aligned all headings at the bottom of the cells.

The document class scrartcl from the KOMA-script has built in commands for setting captions and more sensible margins as standard.

Example 1 – tabularx

I defined three new column types F, R and L, for first column, the seven with decimal separators and the last one.

For the first and last column width, set by the \hsize=1.2\hsize it is important that the sum is 2, see the tabularx manual. Headings are \footnotesize to avoid overfull hbox warnings.

\documentclass[UKenglish]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tabularx,ragged2e,booktabs,babel}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{microtype}
\renewcommand{\tabularxcolumn}[1]{b{#1}}   % Table headings align at the bottom
\newcolumntype{F}{>{\RaggedRight\arraybackslash\hsize=1.2\hsize}X}
\newcolumntype{L}{>{\bfseries\RaggedLeft\arraybackslash\hsize=0.8\hsize}X}
\newcolumntype{R}{>{\RaggedLeft\arraybackslash}X}

\KOMAoptions{captions=tableheading,%
                captions=nooneline}

\addtokomafont{captionlabel}{\small\sffamily\bfseries}
\addtokomafont{caption}{\small\sffamily}

\begin{document}

\setcounter{table}{2} % Increase the couter so next table is table 3
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.4em} % Slightly decrease the space between columns to allow more space for the columns

\begin{table}
\caption{Logit EWS: In-sample and out-of-sample performances}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{} F *{7}{R} L @{}}
\toprule
\footnotesize Sample windows &                 % `footnotesize` to avoid overful hboxes
\footnotesize Proba\-bility cutoff value &
\footnotesize Crises correctly called\,(\%) &
\footnotesize Non-crises correctly called\,(\%) &
\footnotesize Missed crises Episodes (\%) &
\footnotesize False alarms &
\footnotesize Crisis prob.\ given alarm &
\footnotesize Crisis prob.\ given no\,alarm &
\footnotesize TME\\ 
\midrule
&&&
\multicolumn{3}{@{}>{\small\Centering\hsize=3\hsize}X@{}}{Panel A: $\eta=2$ \par In-sample}
&&&\\\addlinespace[0.75ex]
1995--06 & 0.06 & 83.3 & 53.5 & 16.7 & 46.5 & 0.26 & 0.06 & 63\\
1995--07 & 0.08 & 73.4 & 61.0 & 26.6 & 39.0 & 0.25 & 0.07 & 66\\ 
1995--08 & 0.07 & 63.4 & 61.4 & 36.6 & 38.6 & 0.29 & 0.13 & 75\\ 
1995--09 & 0.11 & 60.9 & 62.7 & 39.1 & 37.3 & 0.28 & 0.13 & 76\\ 
1995--10 & 0.09 & 60.8 & 59.5 & 33.2 & 40.0 & 0.27 & 0.11 & 74\\ 
\midrule
&&&
\multicolumn{3}{>{\small\Centering\hsize=3\hsize}X}{\small Out-of-sample}
&&&\\\addlinespace[0.75ex]

\bottomrule
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Example 2 – tabularx and array

The w-column is not a paragraph column, so the headings has to go into \parboxes to set the multiline headings. For the seven w columns, I use the same fixed width, for the first and last, the \hsize picks up the column from tablarx, which also ensure that the tabular fills the full line width.

\documentclass[UKenglish]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tabularx,ragged2e,booktabs}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{babel}

\newcolumntype{F}{>{\RaggedRight\arraybackslash\hsize=1.2\hsize}X}
\newcolumntype{L}{>{\bfseries\RaggedLeft\arraybackslash\hsize=0.8\hsize}X}

\KOMAoptions{captions=tableheading,%
                captions=nooneline}

\addtokomafont{captionlabel}{\small\sffamily\bfseries}
\addtokomafont{caption}{\small\sffamily}

\begin{document}

\newcommand{\head}[1]{\parbox[b]{1.35cm}{\RaggedLeft\small #1} }

\setcounter{table}{2} % Increase the table number 
\renewcommand{\tabcolsep}{0.45em} % reduce distance between columns

\begin{table}
\caption{Logit EWS: In-sample and out-of-sample performances}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{} F*{7}{wr{1.35cm}}L@{}}
\toprule
\parbox[b]{\hsize}{\small\raggedright Sample windows} &
\head{Probabi\-lity cutoff value} &
\head{Crises correctly called\,(\%)} &
\head{Non-crises correctly called\,(\%)} &
\head{Missed crises \mbox{Episodes} (\%)} &
\head{False alarms} &
\head{Crisis prob.\ given alarm} &
\head{Crisis prob.\ given no alarm} &
\parbox[b]{\hsize}{\RaggedLeft\small TME}\\ 
\midrule
&&&
\multicolumn{3}{wc{4.15cm}}{\parbox{4.15cm}{\Centering\small Panel A: $\eta=2$ \par In-sample}}
&&&\\\addlinespace[0.75ex]
1995--06 & 0.06 & 83.3 & 53.5 & 16.7 & 46.5 & 0.26 & 0.06 & 63\\
1995--07 & 0.08 & 73.4 & 61.0 & 26.6 & 39.0 & 0.25 & 0.07 & 66\\ 
1995--08 & 0.07 & 63.4 & 61.4 & 36.6 & 38.6 & 0.29 & 0.13 & 75\\ 
1995--09 & 0.11 & 60.9 & 62.7 & 39.1 & 37.3 & 0.28 & 0.13 & 76\\ 
1995--10 & 0.09 & 60.8 & 59.5 & 33.2 & 40.0 & 0.27 & 0.11 & 74\\ 
\midrule
&&&
\multicolumn{3}{wc{4.15cm}}{\parbox{4.15cm}{\Centering\small Out-of-sample}}
&&&\\\addlinespace[0.75ex]

\bottomrule
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Example 3 – tabular* and dcolumn

This tabular utilises a combination of zero \tabcolsep and tabular*’s ability to expand the space between columns stretching the tabular to the given width (here \linewidth). Thanks to Mico for sharing this trick in this answer.

Since D-columns are maths columns, the headings have to be set in \multicolumn to protect them and put the \parbox inside those. I defined three different table heading commands (\thead), left, centre and right aligned.

The new column types (Y and Z) are D-columns for one or two decimals.

\documentclass[UKenglish]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{ragged2e,booktabs,babel, dcolumn}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{microtype}

\newcolumntype{Y}{D{.}{.}{1.2}}
\newcolumntype{Z}{D{.}{.}{2.1}}

\KOMAoptions{captions=tableheading,%
                captions=nooneline}

\addtokomafont{captionlabel}{\small\sffamily\bfseries}
\addtokomafont{caption}{\small\sffamily}

\begin{document}

\setcounter{table}{2}       % Increase the counter so next table is table 3
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{0em} % Remove tabcolsep, will be compensated by tabular* 
                            % and @{\extracolsep{\fill}}, thanks to Mico
                            % (see https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/518032/9632)

\begin{table}
\newcommand{\thead}[1]{\multicolumn{1}{c}{\parbox[b]{1.35cm}{\Centering\small #1}}}
\newcommand{\theadl}[1]{\multicolumn{1}{l}{\parbox[b]{1.75cm}{\RaggedRight\small #1}}}
\newcommand{\theadr}[1]{\multicolumn{1}{r}{\parbox[b]{1cm}{\bfseries\RaggedLeft\small #1}}}

\caption{Logit EWS: In-sample and out-of-sample performances}
\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}} lY*{4}{Z}*{2}{Y}>{\bfseries}r}
\toprule

\theadl{Sample windows} &
\thead{Probabili\-ty cutoff value} &
\thead{Crises correctly called\,(\%) } &
\thead{Non-crises correctly called\,(\%) } &
\thead{Missed crises Episodes\,(\%)} &
\thead{False alarms} &
\thead{Crisis prob. given alarm} &
\thead{Crisis prob. given no\,alarm} &
\theadr{TME} \\
\midrule
&&&
\multicolumn{3}{@{}>{\small\Centering}p{3cm}@{}}{Panel A: $\eta=2$ \par In-sample}
&&&\\\addlinespace[0.75ex]
1995--06 & 0.06 & 83.3 & 53.5 & 16.7 & 46.5 & 0.26 & 0.06 & 63\\
1995--07 & 0.08 & 73.4 & 61.0 & 26.6 & 39.0 & 0.25 & 0.07 & 66\\ 
1995--08 & 0.07 & 63.4 & 61.4 & 36.6 & 38.6 & 0.29 & 0.13 & 75\\ 
1995--09 & 0.11 & 60.9 & 62.7 & 39.1 & 37.3 & 0.28 & 0.13 & 76\\ 
1995--10 & 0.09 & 60.8 & 59.5 & 33.2 & 40.0 & 0.27 & 0.11 & 74\\ 
\midrule
&&&
\multicolumn{3}{>{\small\Centering}p{3cm}}{Out-of-sample}
&&&\\\addlinespace[0.75ex]

\bottomrule
\end{tabular*}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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