General ⇒ Left justified table cell with wrapped text

[pmar]

Hi all,
I feel like this should be really easy, but after putting several chapters into LaTex I still can't figure this
out. I have a lot of tables that require me to wrap text, so I've been using p{width} for columns
in a longtable environment. This works well, except sometimes when text is wrapped it creates a very underfull row in the cell. Something that looks like this:

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TABLE TITLE
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Section
Text 1
Text 2
Really long text 3 that
successfully wraps
Text......4 ...... doesn't .....wrap succ-
essfully
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I'd like to make this whole column left justified so that rows like 'text 4' do not
add extra spacing between words.

Suggestions?
Thanks ahead of time.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi pmar,

welcome to the board!
You could use \raggedright inside a cell, or define the column format like

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>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{width}

using the array package.

Stefan

[pmar]

That does it! Thanks a lot.