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I have issues with the looking of my tables in two columns paper format. I would like to place my three tables in the same column using all the width of my column. however, the size and the font change. I tried to adjust the font but it does not look great in the paper. I would like to have something resembling the tables drawn in the attached figure that I obtained by word software. enter image description here Thank you at advance for your help

khedidja Ayache
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    you have shown no code so it is very hard to help you or tell you waht to change. placing a table in a column should never change its font, so if that is happening I can only guess you have something like \resizebox{\linewidth} around the table, in which case the standard advice applies: never apply scaling to tables. – David Carlisle Mar 17 '20 at 16:05
  • thank you for your response. here my code for the first table: – khedidja Ayache Mar 17 '20 at 16:10
  • \begin{table}[t] \centering \caption{TABLE I. POWER PEAKS WITH GMPP POSSIBLE LOCATION FOR A 3-BPD SYSTEM} \label{dataset} \resizebox{\columnwidth}{!}{% \resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{%

    \begin{tabular}{@{}cccc@{}}

    \hline \multirow{1}{}{GMPP position} &\multirow{1}{} PL & \multirow{1}{} PR & \multirow{1}{} PM \ \hline Mode 1 & & & \textbullet \ \hline Mode 2 & & & \textbullet \ \hline Mode 3 & &\textbullet & \textbullet \ \hline Mode 4 & \textbullet &\textbullet & \textbullet\ \bottomrule

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

     – khedidja Ayache Mar 17 '20 at 16:10
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    as I guessed!! never use \resizebox around tables, it just distorts things as you describe, but also don't post code to comments, edit your question to have a complete small document that shows the problem, in a code block ({} button in the editor) – David Carlisle Mar 17 '20 at 16:12
  • Thank you for you response and help. When I remove this command (\resizebox) I create tables which do not have the same width and this is not beautiful. I would like to put the three, one below the other in the same column. – khedidja Ayache Mar 17 '20 at 16:32
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    you could use tabular* or tabularx to set the width without distorting the font. (There are hundreds of existing answers on site see for example this answer to a duplicate question https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/10540/1090 – David Carlisle Mar 17 '20 at 16:40
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    note that answer used \textwidth but you would want \columnwidth – David Carlisle Mar 17 '20 at 16:44

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