Manually adjust length and width of table (Cells)

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In the following table i would like to adjust length and height of every cell, how can i do this?

MWE:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
    \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
        \cline{1-2} \cline{4-5} \cline{7-8} \cline{10-11} \cline{13-14}
        (1) &  &  & (5) &  &  & (9)  &  &  & (13) &  &  & (17) &  \\ \cline{1-2} \cline{4-5} \cline{7-8} \cline{10-11} \cline{13-14} 
        (2) &  &  & (6) &  &  & (10) &  &  & (14) &  &  & (18) &  \\ \cline{1-2} \cline{4-5} \cline{7-8} \cline{10-11} \cline{13-14} 
        (3) &  &  & (7) &  &  & (11) &  &  & (15) &  &  & (19) &  \\ \cline{1-2} \cline{4-5} \cline{7-8} \cline{10-11} \cline{13-14} 
        (4) &  &  & (8) &  &  & (12) &  &  & (16) &  &  & (20) &  \\ \cline{1-2} \cline{4-5} \cline{7-8} \cline{10-11} \cline{13-14} 
    \end{tabular}
\end{document}

To adjust the width of the cells, you can use p{<your width} type columns (or >{\centering\arraybackslash}p{<your width>} for the horizontally centered version). See also here: How to create fixed width table columns with text raggedright/centered/raggedleft?. For adjustments of the row height, see here: Increase LaTeX table row height and Column and row padding in tables — leandriis, Sep 06 '19 at 07:17
Unrelated to the issue, but maybe you are interested in simplifying teh coda a bit. Instead of one large tabular with a lot of \cline commands, you could also use five adjacent tabulars as follows: \begin{tabular}{|c|c|} \hline (1) & \\ \hline (2) & \\ \hline (3) & \\ \hline (4) & \\ \hline \end{tabular}\quad \begin{tabular}{|c|c|} \hline (5) & \\ \hline (6) & \\ \hline (7) & \\ \hline (8) & \\ \hline \end{tabular}. — leandriis, Sep 06 '19 at 07:20
With this, you could even use a counter to automatically number the rows. See for example here: Automatic table row numbers — leandriis, Sep 06 '19 at 07:22

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '19 at 07:52

As already mentioned in my previous comments, I'd split up the single table into five different tables. This will make the code much longer but (at least in my opinion) a lot more readable and easier to adjust.

In the following example, I have also used the automated row numbering approach. I have also introduced a new, centered fixed width column type. In order to increase the row height, I have added the makecell package in combination with its \makegepedcells command. Laslty, I made sure, the five tables fit into the textwidth by using \hfill inbetween them.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{makecell} % For increased row height using \makegapedcells

%%%%% Atomatic rownumbering from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/21245/134144 
\usepackage{array,etoolbox}
\newcounter{magicrownumbers}
\setcounter{magicrownumbers}{0}
\newcommand\rownumber{\stepcounter{magicrownumbers}\arabic{magicrownumbers}}
%%%%% 

\newcommand\rn{\makebox[2.5em][c]{(\rownumber)}}
\newcolumntype{P}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{1cm}}
\setcellgapes{6pt}

\begin{document}

\noindent
\makegapedcells
\begin{tabular}{|@{\rn}|P|}
\hline
  \\
\hline
  \\
\hline
 \\
\hline
 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}\hfill
\begin{tabular}{|@{\rn}|P|}
\hline
 \\
\hline
 \\
\hline
 \\
\hline
 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}\hfill
\begin{tabular}{|@{\rn}|P|}
\hline
 \\
\hline
 \\
\hline
 \\
\hline
 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}\hfill
\begin{tabular}{|@{\rn}|P|}
\hline
 \\
\hline
 \\
\hline
 \\
\hline
 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}\hfill
\begin{tabular}{|@{\rn}|P|}
\hline
 \\
\hline
 \\
\hline
 \\
\hline
 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

You can of course adjust the width of the column containing the number to your liking by changing teh width of the \makebox. By changing the width in the definition of the P type cell, you can change the width of the second column. By adjusting the value of \setcellgapes you can influence the height of the rows.

In the following screenshot, I have used:

\newcommand\rn{\makebox[2em][c]{(\rownumber)}}
\newcolumntype{P}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{1.25cm}}
\setcellgapes{10pt}

Yes, this exactly what i want. Thanks a lot...... – SandyM Sep 06 '19 at 07:58 — SandyM, Sep 06 '19 at 07:58

Manually adjust length and width of table (Cells)

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