[Tex/LaTex] Centering texts in tabularx

horizontal alignmenttabularx

It is my first question on this site. I am not sure my LaTeX code will be well written here. Here is my table code. The problem is that the text in the first four columns are not centered in respect to each cell. When I write a small text in the X column , the content of the others four culumns are well centered. But it is not the case when i put a long text in the last colum X. Note that the content of the X column have to be justified. What is the solution to that?

\begin{sidewaystable}[h]
\footnotesize
\centering
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{c >{\centering\arraybackslash}m{1.5cm} >{\centering\arraybackslash}m{4.3cm} X}
\hline
text & text  & text & text & very big text \\
\hline
 text & text & text & text & VERY BIG TEXT \\
\hline
 text & text & text & text &  VERY BIG TEXT \\
\hline
\end{tabularx}
\captionsetup{justification=centering,margin=2cm,font={small}}
\caption{.........}
\captionsetup{font={scriptsize}}
\label{.....}
\caption*{......}
\end{sidewaystable}

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Your example is modified to show important fragments. Therefore, e.g. sidewaystable is changed onto table.

\begin{document}

%\begin{sidewaystable}[h]
\begin{table}[h]
\footnotesize
\centering
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
%\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{c >{\centering\arraybackslash}m{1.5cm} >{\centering\arraybackslash}m{4.3cm} X}
\def\tabularxcolumn#1{m{#1}} % PS (3)
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{c >{\centering\arraybackslash}m{1.5cm} >{\centering\arraybackslash}m{4.3cm} cX}

\hline
%text & text  & text & text & very big text \\
text & text  & text & text  & very big text \\
\hline
% text & text & text & text & VERY BIG TEXT \\
text & text  & text  &  text  &very big text \\
\hline
% text & text & text & text &  VERY BIG TEXT \\
text text & text text text  & text   text text text  text text text text text text  &text & very big text 
 text text text  text text text  text text text 
\\
\hline
\end{tabularx}
%\captionsetup{justification=centering,margin=2cm,font={small}}
\caption{.........}
%\captionsetup{font={scriptsize}}
%\label{.....}
%\caption*{......}
%\end{sidewaystable}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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Here is a solution, using the makecell package, which allows for line breaks in cells. I took the opportunity to simplify your code and automate the numbers in the third column. For a tabularx spreading across pages, I loaded the ltablex package, which brings the functionalities of long table to tabularx.

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}%
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{fourier}

\usepackage{geometry}

\usepackage{array, mathtools}
\usepackage{ltablex, multirow, makecell, booktabs, caption}
\usepackage{rotating}

\begin{document}

\begin{sidewaystable}
  \centering\newcounter{rowctr}\setcounter{rowctr}{0}
  \begin{tabularx}{\columnwidth}{cc >{\stepcounter{rowctr}\therowctr}cX}
    \caption{Add caption}\\
    \toprule
    Procedimiento & Actividad & \multicolumn{1}{c}{N} & Peligro \\
    \midrule
    \endfirsthead
    \multicolumn{4}{c}{\footnotesize Table \thetable\enspace (continued)}\\
    \toprule
    Procedimiento & Actividad & \multicolumn{1}{c}{N} & Peligro \\
    \midrule
    \endhead
    \bottomrule
    \multicolumn{4}{r}{\footnotesize To be continued}
    \endfoot
    \bottomrule
    \endlastfoot
    \multirowcell{10}{Combate de & & & \\ incendios \\forestales} & \multirowcell{5}{Evaluación \\ del sector} & & No tomar en cuenta la información técnica o de la situación del incendio. \\
                                 & & & No considerar la geografía del sector \\
                                 & & & Omitir algunas variables meteorológicas \\
                                 & & & Que la información anterior no llegue en el momento necesario \\
                                 & & & La existencia de fallas en los sistemas de recepción de los datos anteriormente nombrados \\
    \cmidrule{2-4}
                                 & \multirowcell{5}{Activar la & & \\ alarma} & & Que no sea realmente una emergencia \\
                                 & & & Que el personal no esté bien capacitados en cuanto al modo de actuar en una emergencia \\
                                 & & & Que la alarma no funcione \\
                                 & & & No tener redundancias en el sistema por si funciona solo en base a electricidad y se corta la luz \\
                                 & & & No tener material disponible para ir a combatir el incendio \\
    \bottomrule

  \end{tabularx}%
  \label{tab:addlabel}%
A\end{sidewaystable}

\end{document}

As for your last request, the code can be modified to obtain what you want, but you can't use booktabs for that (vertical rules wouldn't cross horizontal rules), and it wouldn't look very professional…

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A skeleton for a document with horizontally centered tables that might occupy the full text width would be:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[
  hmargin=0mm, % Remove left and right margin
  % Set vertical margin or whatever
]{geometry}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}% No indentation of first lines in paragraphs
\setlength{\parskip}{2ex minus 1ex plus 4ex}% Vertical space between paragraphs

\begin{document}
\centering

\begin{tabularx}{21cm}{X X X}
  ...
\end{tabularx}

\begin{tabularx}{15cm}{X X X}
  ...
\end{tabularx}

\begin{tabularx}{20.5cm}{X X X}
  ...
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}

The empty lines between the environments tabularx are important. Then each table is set inside a new paragraph. The space between these paragraphs can be configured by \parskip, see the preamble.

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