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I'm looking to include a table in a document on a single page with A4 size, ensuring that the text remains readable. I attempted to use \scalebox, but it resulted in the text becoming too small and altering the width and height of the box. Since I'm relatively new to LaTeX, I find myself a bit stuck and would appreciate any suggestions or guidance you could offer on how to achieve this. Thank you!

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\begin{table}[!htbp] \centering
\begin{adjustbox}{width=\textwidth}
\begin{tabular}{@{\extracolsep{0pt}}  llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll} 
\\[-1.8ex]\hline                    
\hline \\[-1.8ex] 
\textbf{Monetary Policy} \\
1) Monetary Authority  Loans Through the Asset Backed Commercial Paper Money \\  Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility  AMLF  and Money Market Mutual Fund \\ Liquidity Facility  MMLF   Asset  Level Lag 1 \\ 
2) Monetary Authority  Depository Institution Loans N E C  to Other Financial Business \\ Commercial Paper Funding Facility LLC   Asset  Transactions Lag 1 \\

\textbf{International Finance - Government} \

  1. Rest of the World U S Government Loans Excluding Capital Subscriptions and \ Contributions to International Financial Institutions and the IMF Liability Revaluation Lag 0 \
  2. Rest of the World Other U S Reserve Assets Other Claims Liability Transactions Lag 0 \
  3. Rest of the World U S Government Loans Excluding Capital Subscriptions and \ Contributions to International Financial Institutions and the IMF Liability Revaluation Lag 1 \
  4. Rest of the World U S Government Loans Excluding Capital Subscriptions and \ Contributions to International Financial Institutions and the IMF Liability Revaluation Lag 4 \
  5. Rest of the World Other U S Reserve Assets Other Claims Liability Revaluation Lag 0 \

\textbf{Domestic Finance - Private} \

  1. Government Sponsored Enterprises Equity Capital of Farm Credit System Transactions Lag 3 \
  2. Pension Funds Corporate Equities Asset Transactions Lag 2 \
  3. Security Brokers and Dealers Payables to Customer and Rest of the World \ Noncustomers Free Credit Margin Deposits and Other Payables Liability \ Transactions Lag 4 \
  4. Government Sponsored Enterprises Corporate Equities Held by Freddie Mac Asset \ Level Lag 0 \
  5. Private Depository Institutions Total Time and Savings Deposits Liability \ Transactions Lag 1 \
  6. Nonprofit Organizations Municipal Securities Sum of Holders Liability FWTW \ Transactions Lag 4 \
  7. Other Financial Corporations and Insurance Companies and Pension Funds Net \ Claims on Nonfinancial Businesses and Households and Nonprofit Organizations \ Asset FWTW Transactions Lag 4 \

\textbf{Recession} \

  1. Government Sponsored Enterprises Equity Capital of Farm Credit System Transactions Lag 4 \
  2. NBER based Recession Indicators for the United States from the Period following \ the Peak through the Trough Lag 2 \
  3. NBER based Recession Indicators for the United States from the Peak through the \ Period preceding the Trough Lag 3 \
  4. OECD based Recession Indicators for the United States from the Peak through the \ Trough Lag 2 \
  5. OECD based Recession Indicators for the United States from the Peak through the Trough 1 Lag 2 \

\textbf{Unemployment and Wages} \

  1. Employment Level Agriculture and Related Industries Wage and Salary Workers Lag 1 \
  2. Unemployment Rate Nonagriculture Private Wage and Salary Workers Lag 3 \

\textbf{Domestic Finance - Government} \

  1. State and Local Government Employee Defined Benefit Retirement Funds Total Time \ and Savings Deposits Asset Transactions Lag 0 \
  2. State and Local Government Employee Defined Benefit Retirement Funds Total Time \ and Savings Deposits Asset Transactions Lag 1 \
  3. Total Consumer Credit Owned by Depository Institutions Flow Lag 1 \
  4. Domestic Financial Sectors Net Saving Including Foreign Earnings Retained Abroad \ and CCAdj Less Net Capital Transfers Paid Other Than for Financial Stabilization \ Program Transactions Lag 1 \
  5. General Government Other Accounts Payable Including SDR Allocations Liability \ IMA Revaluation Lag 4 \
  6. State and Local Governments Foreign Bonds Asset FWTW Transactions Lag 2 \
  7. Domestic Financial Sectors Net Saving Including Foreign Earnings Retained Abroad \ and CCAdj Less Net Capital Transfers Paid Other Than for Financial Stabilization \ Program Transactions Lag 2 \

\textbf{International Finance - Private} \

  1. Households and Nonprofit Organizations Commercial and Multifamily Residential \ Mortgages Asset Transactions Lag 1 \
  2. Rest of the World Corporate Bonds Issued by Netherlands Antillean Financial \ Subsidiaries of U S Corporations Asset Revaluation Lag 4 \
  3. Households and Nonprofit Organizations Commercial and Multifamily Residential \ Mortgages Asset Transactions Lag 2 \
  4. Pension Funds Security Repurchase Agreements Issued by the Rest of the World \ Asset FWTW Revaluation Lag 4 \
  5. Domestic Financial Sectors Insurance Pension and Standardized Guarantee Schemes \ Asset IMA Revaluation Lag 4 \
  6. Rest of the World Debt Securities and Negotiable Certificates of Deposit Issued \ by Financial Corporations Asset FWTW Transactions Lag 1 \
  7. Private Pension Funds Security Repurchase Agreements Asset Transactions Lag 3 \
  8. Private Pension Funds Security Repurchase Agreements Asset Transactions Lag 2 \
  9. Holding Companies Security Repurchase Agreements Issued by the Rest of the World \ Asset FWTW Transactions Lag 0 \
  10. Rest of the World Corporate Bonds Issued by Netherlands Antillean Financial \ Subsidiaries of U S Corporations Asset Transactions Lag 0 \

\textbf{Housing and Mortgages} \

  1. Federal Government One to Four Family Residential Mortgages Held by RTC Asset \ Level Lag 1 \
  2. Federal Government One to Four Family Residential Mortgages Asset Transactions \ Lag 4 \
  3. Federal Government One to Four Family Residential Mortgages Held by Public Housing \ Administration PHA Asset Transactions Lag 4 \
  4. Federal Government One to Four Family Residential Mortgages Held by RTC Asset \ Level Lag 3 \

\hline \[-1.8ex] \end{tabular} \end{adjustbox} \caption{Selected economic variables by SCAD regression} \end{table}

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Joe94
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    Welcome to TeX.SX! You might find some ideas here. But first of all, why do you define 42 l columns if you only use one? Why do you use a tabular at all? Anyways, the simplest hot fix to this would probably be to replace the column defintion (in the mandatory argument to the tabular environment) with just @{} p{\linewidth} @{}. – Jasper Habicht Feb 06 '24 at 17:13
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    only use \scalebox on tables as a last resort, and even then try to avoid it. – David Carlisle Feb 06 '24 at 17:35
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    llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll means you are specifying a table of 41 columns, each set to the natural width of the text, with no line breaking. That is not going to fit in most pages. – David Carlisle Feb 06 '24 at 17:36
  • I understand. I changed it to just one column with using just one l. Now I try to make the font smaller inside the table smaller. However, somehow this does not work. I only can change the size of just one line. – Joe94 Feb 06 '24 at 18:04
  • Just adding \small does not work as done here:

    \begin{table}[!htbp] \centering \begin{adjustbox}{width=\textwidth} \small \begin{tabular}{@{\extracolsep{0pt}} l} \[-1.8ex]\hline
    \hline \[-1.8ex] \textbf{Monetary Policy} \

    1. Monetary Authority Loans Through the Asset Backed Commercial Paper Money \ Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility AMLF and Money Market Mutual Fund \ -......
    – Joe94 Feb 06 '24 at 18:07
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    if you only want 1 column, why are you using a table at all? This just seems to be an enumerated list, numbered by habd (which you should almost never do in latex) I would remove all the font size, tabular and adjustbox markup and just have a series of enumerate enviornments – David Carlisle Feb 06 '24 at 18:41
  • Don't use an l column, but a p{\linewidth} column which will automatically break lines. You can additionally decrease the font size with \small or \footnotesize. If the text body is not very tight, this should work. If not, please show a minimal working example (MWE) so that we know more about your document set up, the paper size, margins etc. – Jasper Habicht Feb 07 '24 at 08:22

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The {...} that comes after \begin{tabular} is the column specification: it tells lateX what columns are coming in your table. l means a left adjusted column with no line breaks. You're claiming that there are 42 such columns, but you only ever use 1 column. That looks strange, but doesn't really cause the problem. The problem is that l doesn't allow for line breaks, so you have to introduce all of those arbitrary \\ line breaks. Instead, you can use p{\linewidth} to say the column is the width of your page, and TeX will automatically figure out the line breaks. But if it's only one column, it's not really a table, and you shouldn't use tabular (you can still use \begin{table} if you want to call it a table, but don't use tabular). But we'll introduce some columns.

As you noticed, \adjustbox and \scalebox will destroy your font sizing and aspect ratio, and should be avoided. I've also changed the [!htpb] into [p], since the table is so large that's really the only possibility.

The general idea of designing a table is if you're repeating information, you should try to move it to a better location. The big one in this case is that every row is ending with "Lag #", suggesting that "Lag" should be a new column. The first column can now change to the X type of tabularx, which means that the lag column will be sized for its widest item, and the X column will take the rest of the width.

Some of the entries in a category start with the same text. I've moved that text to the header for that category. Some of your entries are identical except for different lags. I combined those into a single entry, and put both lags in the lag column.

I don't see a reason for the leading numbers, so I removed them.

Doing all of this (and some overly agressive abbreviating) allows me to change \tiny up to \footnotesize, and Table 1 fits onto a single a4 page with geometry's default margins (you really should have told us what your margins are). If I were you, I think I would stop there, and undo some of my abbreviations.

We can do a bit better by moving the categories to a new column, and nesting some tabularx for the very repetitive "Recession" and "Mortgage" entries (and the Netherlands Antillean entries). That saves us a line or two, so that we can get up to \small and Table 2.

Other items:

  • I've rearranged several categories to move similar variables next to each other.
  • You've capitalized far too many words. I undid most of that.
  • - is for a hyphen. If you want a dash, you should use ---. And -- for a range of numbers.
  • I've introduced booktabs and its rules.
  • The usual advice is that a table's caption should go above, and a figure's caption should go below.

The code and its result:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{multirow}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[p]\footnotesize
\caption{Selected economic variables by SCAD regression} 
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{ @{} X c @{} } \toprule
\textbf{Monetary Policy} --- Monetary Authority & Lag \\
Loans through the asset backed commercial paper money market mutual fund liquidity facility  AMLF \& MMLF   asset  level & 1 \\ 
Depository inst loans NEC to other fin business commercial paper funding facility LLC asset txns & 1 \\\midrule
\textbf{International Finance --- Govt} --- Non-US \\
US govt loans excl capital subscriptions \& contributions to international fin insts \& the IMF  liability  reval & 0,1,4 \\ 
Other US  reserve assets  other claims  liability  txns & 0 \\ 
Other US  reserve assets  other claims  liability  reval & 0 \\ \midrule
\textbf{Domestic Finance --- Private} \\ 
Govt sponsored enterprises  equity capital of farm credit system  txns & 3 \\ 
Govt sponsored enterprises  corporate equities held by Freddie Mac  asset level & 0 \\ 
Pension funds  corporate equities  asset  txns & 2 \\ 
Security brokers \& dealers  payables to customer \& non-US noncustomers  free credit  margin deposits  \& other payables   liability  txns & 4 \\ 
Private depository insts  total time \& savings deposits  liability  txns & 1 \\ 
Nonprofit orgs  municipal securities  sum of holders   liability  FWTW   txns & 4 \\ 
Other fin corps \& insurance comps \& pension funds  net claims on nonfin businesses \& households \& nonprofit orgs  asset  FWTW   txns & 4 \\ \midrule
\textbf{Recession} \\
Govt sponsored enterprises  equity capital of farm credit system  txns & 4 \\
NBER based recession indicators for the US from the period following the peak through the trough & 2 \\ 
NBER based recession indicators for the US from the peak through the period preceding the trough & 3 \\ 
OECD based recession indicators for the US from the peak through the trough & 2 \\ 
OECD based recession indicators for the US from the peak through the trough 1 & 2 \\ \midrule
\textbf{Unemployment \& Wages} \\
Employment level   ag \& related industries  wage \& salary workers & 1 \\ 
Unemployment rate   nonag  private wage \& salary workers & 3 \\ \midrule
\textbf{Domestic Finance --- Govt} \\
State \& local govt employee defined ben rtrmnt funds  total time \& savings deposits  asset  txns & 0,1 \\ 
Total consumer credit owned by depository insts  flow & 1 \\ 
Gen govt  other accounts payable incl SDR allocations  liability  IMA   reval & 4 \\ 
State \& local govts  foreign bonds  asset  FWTW   txns & 2 \\ 
Domestic fin sectors  net saving incl foreign earnings retained abroad \& CCAdj less net capital txfrs paid  other than for fin stabilization program   txns & 1,2 \\ \midrule
\textbf{International Finance --- Private} \\
Households \& nonprofit orgs  commercial \& multifam res mortgages  asset  txns & 1,2 \\ 
Non-US  corporate bonds issued by Netherlands Antillean fin subsidiaries of US  corps  asset  reval & 4 \\ 
Pension funds  security repurchase agreements issued by the non-US  asset  FWTW   reval & 4 \\ 
Domestic fin sectors  insurance  pension \& standardized guarantee schemes asset  IMA   reval & 4 \\ 
Non-US  debt securities \& negotiable certificates of deposit issued by fin corps  asset  FWTW   txns & 1 \\ 
Private pension funds security repurchase agreements  asset  txns & 3,2 \\ 
Holding comps  security repurchase agreements issued by the non-US asset  FWTW   txns & 0 \\ 
Non-US  corporate bonds issued by Netherlands Antillean fin subsidiaries of US  corps  asset  txns & 0 \\ \midrule
\textbf{Housing \& Mortgages} --- Fed Govt 1--4 Fam Res Mortgages \\
Asset  txns & 4 \\ 
Held by public housing admin  PHA   asset  txns & 4 \\ 
Held by RTC  asset level & 1,3 \\ \bottomrule
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[p]\small \caption{Selected economic variables by SCAD regression} \newlength{\firstcolwidth} \setlength{\firstcolwidth}{2.1cm} \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{ @{} p{\firstcolwidth} X c @{} } \toprule Category & Variable & Lag \\midrule \multirow[t]{2}{\firstcolwidth}{Monetary Policy --- Monetary Authority} & Loans through the asset backed commercial paper money market mutual fund liquidity facility AMLF & MMLF asset level & 1 \ & Depository inst loans NEC to other fin business commercial paper funding facility LLC asset txns & 1 \\midrule \multirow[t]{4}{\firstcolwidth}{International Finance --- Govt --- Non-US} & US govt loans excl capital subscriptions & contributions to international fin insts & the IMF liability reval & 0,1,4 \ & Other US reserve assets other claims liability txns & 0 \ & Other US reserve assets other claims liability reval & 0 \ \midrule \multirow[t]{7}{\firstcolwidth}{Domestic Finance --- Private} & Govt sponsored enterprises equity capital of farm credit system txns & 3 \ & Govt sponsored enterprises corporate equities held by Freddie Mac asset level & 0 \ & Nonprofit orgs municipal securities sum of holders liability FWTW txns & 4 \ & Pension funds corporate equities asset txns & 2 \ & Private depository insts total time & savings deposits liability txns & 1 \ & Security brokers & dealers payables to customer & non-US noncustomers free credit margin deposits & other payables liability txns & 4 \ & Other fin corps & insurance comps & pension funds net claims on nonfin businesses & households & nonprofit orgs asset FWTW txns & 4 \ \midrule \multirow[t]{5}{\firstcolwidth}{Recession} & Govt sponsored enterprises equity capital of farm credit system txns & 4 \ & \multirow{4}{}{% {\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{ @{} p{3cm} X } \multirow[t]{4}{3cm}{Recession indicators for the US ...} & NBER, post peak through trough \ & NBER, peak through pre trough \ & OECD, peak through trough \ & OECD, peak through trough 1 \ \end{tabularx}} } & 2 \ & & 3 \ & & 2 \ & & 2 \\midrule \multirow[t]{2}{\firstcolwidth}{Unemployment & Wages} & Employment level ag & related industries wage & salary workers & 1 \ & Unemployment rate nonag private wage & salary workers & 3 \ \midrule \multirow[t]{6}{\firstcolwidth}{Domestic Finance --- Govt} & State & local govt employee defined ben rtrmnt funds total time & savings deposits asset txns & 0,1 \ & State & local govts foreign bonds asset FWTW txns & 2 \ & Total consumer credit owned by depository insts flow & 1 \ & Gen govt other accounts payable incl SDR allocations liability IMA reval & 4 \ & Domestic fin sectors net saving incl foreign earnings retained abroad & CCAdj less net capital txfrs paid other than for fin stabilization program txns & 1,2 \ \midrule \multirow[t]{9}{\firstcolwidth}{International Finance --- Private} & Households & nonprofit orgs commercial & multifam res mortgages asset txns & 1,2 \ & Non-US debt securities & negotiable certificates of deposit issued by fin corps asset FWTW txns & 1 \ & Domestic fin sectors insurance pension & standardized guarantee schemes asset IMA reval & 4 \ & Holding comps security repurchase agreements issued by the non-US asset FWTW txns & 0 \ & Pension funds security repurchase agreements issued by the non-US asset FWTW reval & 4 \ & Private pension funds security repurchase agreements asset txns & 3,2 \ & \multirow{2}{}{{% \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{ @{} X l } \multirow{2}{\linewidth}{Non-US corporate bonds issued by Netherlands Antillean fin subsidiaries of US corps asset ...} & reval \ & txns \end{tabularx} }} & 4 \ & & 0 \ \midrule \multirow[t]{3}{\firstcolwidth}{Housing & Mortgages} & \multirow{3}{*}{% {\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{ @{} p{2.8cm} X } \multirow[t]{3}{\linewidth}{Fed Govt 1--4 Fam Res Mortgages} & Asset txns \ & Held by public housing admin PHA asset txns \ & Held by RTC asset level \end{tabularx} }} & 4 \ & & 4 \ & & 1,3 \ \bottomrule \end{tabularx} \end{table} \end{document}

Table 1 output

Table 2 output

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