Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Tabular: Centering text in one row & better text alignment

[davidfall]

Hi,

I have to issues creating a table using the tabular environment. I'm quite new to latex, so the solutions might be quite easy...

1: I would like to center the text in the first row. Is it possible?

2: I have a lot of text in some cells and it looks awful as it spreads out all over the cell width. Can i get "normal" alignment somehow?

Many thanks in advance!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi David,

1. yes, using \centering or \multicolumn, for example
   

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   \multicolumn{3}{c}{Text}

2. you could use \raggedright in the column definition or within the cell.

If it's too theoretical, you could show us your example table and we can tell you how you can apply a solution.

Stefan

[davidfall]

Thanks!

For the record I solved 1 by using \centering and 2 by using \raggedright in a tabularx-environment (as it fitted my purpose better).

Again, thanks alot.