Text Formatting ⇒ problem with justifying text in table

[mahmood]

Hi,
I have created a table with this header:

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\begin{tabular}{| c | c | p{6cm} | p{6cm} |}

problem with that is the two last columns are not justified center. I have tried

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\begin{tabular}{| c | c | cp{6cm} | cp{6cm} |}

but it doesn't work. Any solution to that? thank

[localghost]

From your last try I assume that you want horizontal alignment of the text. This will require at least the array package to assign a certain alignment to these columns.

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

\newcommand*{\filltext}{The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.}

\begin{document}
  \begin{tabular}{|c|c|>{\centering}p{6cm}|>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{6cm}|}\hline
    Head & Head & Head & Head \\\hline
    Values & Values & \filltext & \filltext \\\hline
    Values & Values & \filltext & \filltext \\\hline
  \end{tabular}
\end{document}

For more information refer to the package manual. Hyphenation could be improved by using the ragged2e package. You may also take a look at the quite new tabu package, which seems to be an allrounder regarding tables. It is advisable to drop vertical lines for better legibility of tables.


Thorsten

[mahmood]

Thanks for that. It worked however I didn't thought it has a such complex syntax