How to overwrite margins for one table

Question

I have a table that is too long for it to fit under the current margins. Im wondering if there is possible to overwrite the margins for this table only so that it fits in on an a4 page, but not the rest of the text?

\begin{table}
    \centering
    \caption{Caption}
    \label{tab:my_label}
    \begin{tabular}{@{}l*{7}{c}}
    \toprule
    & & \thead{Obs.} & \thead{Mean} & \thead{Median} & \thead{Std.dev.} & \thead{p-value\\(diff. in means)} & \thead{p-value\\(diff. in medians}
    \\\midrule
Panel A. Matching Characteristics &  &  &  &  &  &  &  \\ 
\hspace{3mm}Log(assets) & Green Bond & 108 & 9.621 & 9.501 & 1.803 & 0.059 & 0.03  \\ 
    \\\bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
\end{table}

Please make your code compilable by adding the documentclass as well as the relevant packages to your code (See also: minimal working example (MWE)) — leandriis, Jan 06 '22 at 11:38
Although about centering an overly wide figure, the following question and its answers may be of interest for you: Center figure that is wider than \textwidth. For some alternatives whith which you could make sure your table fits into the available space rather than letting it protrude into the margins, you may want to take a look at My table doesn't fit; what are my options? — leandriis, Jan 06 '22 at 11:47

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 08 '22 at 01:24

With use of the changepage package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[strict]{changepage}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\UseTblrLibrary{booktabs,
                siunitx,
                varwidth}
%---------------- Show page layout. Don't use in a real document!
\usepackage{showframe}
\renewcommand\ShowFrameLinethickness{0.15pt}
\renewcommand*\ShowFrameColor{\color{red}}
%---------------------------------------------------------------%
\usepackage{lipsum}% For dummy text. Don't use in a real document
\begin{document}
\lipsum[11]
    \begin{table}[ht]
\begin{adjustwidth}{}{-\dimexpr\marginparwidth+\marginparsep} % <---
\begin{talltblr}[
caption = {Caption},
  label = {tab:my_label},
note{a} = {SD: Standard Deviation},
note{b} = {$p$-value for Difference in means},
note{c} = {$p$-value for Difference in medians}
                ]{colspec = {@{}{3}{Q[l]} c {5}{X[c, m, si={table-format=1.3}]} @{}},
                   colsep = 3pt,
                   row{1} = {font=\bfseries},
                  measure = vbox
                 }
    \toprule
 ~  &   &       & Obs.  & {{{Mean}}}
                                & {{{Median}}}
                                        & {{{SD\TblrNote{a} }}}

                                                & {{{$p$\TblrNote{b} (mean)}}}

                                                        & {{{$p$\TblrNote{c} (meadian)}}}   \
    \midrule
\SetCell[c=3]{l} {Panel A:\ Matching Characteristics}
    &   &       &       &       &       &       &       &       \
    \hline[dashed]
    & Log(assets)
        & Green Bond
                & 108   & 9.621 & 9.501 & 1.803 & 0.059 & 0.03  \
    \bottomrule
    \end{talltblr}
\end{adjustwidth}
    \end{table}
\lipsum[11]
\end{document}

(red lines indicate page layout)

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 07 '22 at 14:54

Without further information such as documentclass, used packages and a detailed description of want you want, we can only guess what you are trying to achieve. I also don't understand the first column of your table. Does this come close to your desired output?

This is generated by the following code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\UseTblrLibrary{booktabs}
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\begin{table}[h]
    \centering
    \makebox[\linewidth]{%
    \begin{tblr}{
            colspec={@{} l*{7}{c} @{}},
            row{1}={font=\bfseries, m},
        }
        \toprule
        & & Obs. & Mean & Median & Std.dev. & {p-value \ (diff. in means)} & {p-value \ (diff. in medians} \
        \midrule
        {Panel A. Matching \ Characteristics} &  &  &  &  &  &  &  \ 
        \hspace{3mm}Log(assets) & Green Bond & 108 & 9.621 & 9.501 & 1.803 & 0.059 & 0.03  \ 
        \bottomrule
    \end{tblr}}
    \caption{Caption}
    \label{tab:my_label}
\end{table}
\blindtext
\end{document}

Of course, I could only guess things like documentclass and margin, so please provide more information so we can help.

There are quite a few things not so great about this layout. It is just meant as a clarification for your question.

How to overwrite margins for one table

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