Document Classes ⇒ Fitting Tables in Presentation Slides

[lucataschini]

Hi all,

I have a table that does not fit in the slides I'm preparing with the beamer class.

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\begin{table}[!ht]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{|c||c|c|c||c|c|c||c|c|c|} \hline
    $\sigma$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{$\sigma$=.05} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{$\sigma$=.20} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{$\sigma$=.40} \\ \hline
    d & 0      & 0.5    & 1      & 0      & 0.5    & 1      & 0      & 0.5    & 1      \\ \hline
    0 & 2.8291 & 2.8291 & 2.8291 & 3.5735 & 3.5735 & 3.5734 & 5.3185 & 5.3113 & 5.3080 \\
    3 & 2.3221 & 2.3221 & 2.3221 & 2.1571 & 2.1571 & 2.1570 & 2.0858 & 2.0823 & 2.0807 \\
    5 & 2.0973 & 2.0973 & 2.0973 & 1.8080 & 1.8079 & 1.8079 & 1.5447 & 1.5417 & 1.5403 \\ \hline
    \end{tabular}
\end{table}

Any idea how to solve this size issue?

Thank you for your help, and have a great day from the sunny Zurich!


Luca

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Luca,

you don't need the table environment, I guess that table is not intended to float. You could choose a smaller font size and you could reduce \tabcolsep, like in this example.

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\usepackage{caption}
...
\frame{%
  \begin{center}
    \captionof{table}{Test}
    \label{table:second}
    \setlength{\tabcolsep}{2pt}
    \small
    \begin{tabular}{|c||c|c|c||c|c|c||c|c|c|} \hline
      $\sigma$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{$\sigma$=.05} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{$\sigma$=.20} & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{$\sigma$=.40} \\ \hline
      d & 0 & 0.5 & 1 & 0 & 0.5 & 1 & 0 & 0.5 & 1 \\ \hline
      0 & 2.8291 & 2.8291 & 2.8291 & 3.5735 & 3.5735 & 3.5734 & 5.3185 & 5.3113 & 5.3080 \\
      3 & 2.3221 & 2.3221 & 2.3221 & 2.1571 & 2.1571 & 2.1570 & 2.0858 & 2.0823 & 2.0807 \\
      5 & 2.0973 & 2.0973 & 2.0973 & 1.8080 & 1.8079 & 1.8079 & 1.5447 & 1.5417 & 1.5403 \\ \hline
    \end{tabular}
  \end{center}%
}

But don't make the font too small in a presentation.

Stefan

[lucataschini]

Thank you very much!

[ejspeiro]

What about having this table inside a block? Can I do that?

Thanks!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Eduardo,

sure, did you try it? If you tried and got an error or an undesired result, you could post the error message here or the code which you tried.

Stefan