Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Columns with different sized text

[lloyd22]

Quite new to LaTeX. What's the best way to set up a table with smaller font size in certain specified columns, so that once it's set up and I start typing in the entries for each row, I don't have to specify the changes in size for the entries in those columns? Thank you! Lloyd.

[localghost]

If I understand you right, the code below should do what you want.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{array,booktabs}

\begin{document}
  \begin{tabular}{l>{\footnotesize}l>{\Large}l}\toprule
    Normal & Footnote size & Large \\\midrule
    Values & Values & Values \\
    Values & Values & Values \\
    Values & Values & Values \\\bottomrule
  \end{tabular}
\end{document}

For more information about the involved packages refer to their manuals on CTAN or via command prompt on your local machine.

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texdoc array

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[lloyd22]

Thank you Thorsten, that does the trick nicely. It leads me to another related question, which I hope it's ok to post in this same thread:

What if I wanted to set the table up with different formatting for odd rows and even rows? The reason is that I want to entabulate some data, and include in the "inbetween" rows the difference between entries above and below. I know there are other ways to represent this information in a table (such as in a different column), but for my current purposes it makes sense to do it this way.

I appreciate you posting in a complete working solution for me last time--to save you time, you could just indicate a couple of key words (and packages if they are required) and I'm happy to go look it up for myself.

Regards, Lloyd