Adjust space between words and text alignment in Latex tables

Question

I would like to remove the space between words when the text is wrapped in columns 2,4 and 5.
Then I want to adjust the text alignment of the last 3 columns to right.
Lastly if I can wrap the 3th column tile would be great.

\begin{table}[H]
\centering
\begin{adjustbox}{max width=1\textwidth,center}
\begin{tabular}{@{}l p{0.18\linewidth} c p{0.15\linewidth} p{0.35\linewidth} c r r @{}}
\toprule
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Name} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Data Set} &  Number of Assets & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Optimization} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Risk Model} &  Signal & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Start} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Backtest} \\ \midrule
Global 1 & Global equities, bonds, 55 FX,   and commodities & 55 & EPOS & Exponentially-weighted daily   volatilties (60-day center-of-mass) and 3-day overlapping correlations (150   day center-of-mass) & TSMOM & 01/01/1970 & 01/01/1985 \\
Global 2 & Global equities, bonds, 55 FX,   and commodities & 55 & EPOS & Risk model from Global 1, where   correlations are shrunk 5\% & TSMOM & 01/01/1970 & 01/01/1985 \\
Global 3 & Global equities, bonds, 55 FX,   and commodities & 55 & EPOS & Risk model from Global 1,   enhanced via random matrix theory & TSMOM & 01/01/1970 & 01/01/1985 \\
Equity 1 & 49 industry portfolios & 49 & EPOS & 60 months (equal-weighted), 5\%   shunk & XSMOM & 01/01/1927 & 01/01/1942 \\
Equity 2 & 49 industry portfolios & 49 & EPOS & 40 days (equal-weighted), 5\%   shunk & XSMOM & 01/01/1927 & 01/01/1942 \\
Equity 3 & 49 industry portfolios & 49 & EPOS & 120 days (equal-weighted), 5\%   shunk & XSMOM & 01/01/1927 & 01/01/1942 \\
Equity 4 & 49 industry portfolios & 49 & EPOS & 120 days (equal-weighted), 5\%   shunk & XSMOM*sigma & 01/01/1927 & 01/01/1942 \\
Equity 5 & 49 industry portfolios & 49 & EPOS & 120 days (equal-weighted), 5\%   shunk & XSMOM*sigma\textasciicircum{}2 & 01/01/1927 & 01/01/1942 \\
Equity 6 & 49 industry portfolios & 49 & EPO with anchor= 1/N & 60 months (equal-weighted), 5\%   shunk & XSMOM & 01/01/1927 & 01/01/1942 \\
Equity 7 & 49 industry portfolios & 49 & EPO with anchor= 1/sigma & 60 months (equal-weighted), 5\%   shunk & XSMOM & 01/01/1927 & 01/01/1942 \\
Equity 8 & Each industry split in 2   portfolios based on past 12 month return & 98 & EPOS & 60 months (equal-weighted), 5\%   shunk & XSMOM & 01/01/1927 & 01/01/1942 \\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{adjustbox}
\caption{}
\label{tab:my-table}
\end{table}

Basically I want to replicate this next table

How to create fixed width table columns with text raggedright/centered/raggedleft? — leandriis, Oct 14 '23 at 12:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 14 '23 at 12:54

Please always provide MWE (Minimal Working Example), a complete small document, which can be compiled as it is (as I do below).
Newer scale table, it cause inconsistent font size in table.
For less space between column context in table body you need to make column headers narrower.
With small redesign of your table:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=25mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\usepackage{booktabs, makecell, tabularx}
\newcolumntype{R}[1]{>{\RaggedRight\hsize=#1\hsize\hspace{0pt}}X}
\begin{document}
    \begin{table}[htb]
\caption{Data for time period from 01/01 in start year to 01/01 in back test year. Opt.: type of Optimization}
\label{tab:my-table}
    \end{table}
\setlength\tabcolsep{3pt}
\footnotesize
    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}l R{1} l R{0.7}  R{1.3} c r r @{}}
\toprule
Name

    & Data Set
        & \makecell[l]{Num. of\ Assets} 
            & Opt.
                & Risk Model
                    &  Signal 
                        & start 
                            & \makecell[l]{Back\ test}  \
    \midrule
Global 1 
    & Global equities, bonds, 55 FX,   and commodities 
        & 55 
            & EPOS 
                & Exponentially-weighted daily   volatilties (60-day center-of-mass) and 3-day overlapping correlations (150   day center-of-mass) 
                    & TSMOM 
                        & 1970

                            & 1985 \
Global 2 & Global equities, bonds, 55 FX,   and commodities & 55 & EPOS & Risk model from Global 1, where   correlations are shrunk 5% & TSMOM & 1970 & 1985 \
Global 3 & Global equities, bonds, 55 FX,   and commodities & 55 & EPOS & Risk model from Global 1,   enhanced via random matrix theory & TSMOM & 1970 & 1985 \
Equity 1 & 49 industry portfolios & 49 & EPOS & 60 months (equal-weighted), 5%   shunk & XSMOM & 1927 & 1942 \
Equity 2 & 49 industry portfolios & 49 & EPOS & 40 days (equal-weighted), 5%   shunk & XSMOM & 1927 & 1942 \
Equity 3 & 49 industry portfolios & 49 & EPOS & 120 days (equal-weighted), 5%   shunk & XSMOM & 1927 & 1942 \
Equity 4 & 49 industry portfolios & 49 & EPOS & 120 days (equal-weighted), 5%   shunk & XSMOMsigma & 1927 & 1942 \
Equity 5 & 49 industry portfolios & 49 & EPOS & 120 days (equal-weighted), 5%   shunk & XSMOMsigma\textasciicircum{}2 & 1927 & 1942 \
Equity 6 & 49 industry portfolios & 49 & EPO with anchor= 1/N & 60 months (equal-weighted), 5%   shunk & XSMOM & 1927 & 1942 \
Equity 7 & 49 industry portfolios & 49 & EPO with anchor= 1/sigma & 60 months (equal-weighted), 5%   shunk & XSMOM & 1927 & 1942 \
Equity 8 & Each industry split in 2   portfolios based on past 12 month return & 98 & EPOS & 60 months (equal-weighted), 5%   shunk & XSMOM & 1927 & 1942 \ 
    \bottomrule
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}

you will get the following result:

Is this result satisfactory?

Adjust space between words and text alignment in Latex tables

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