[Tex/LaTex] How to fit the table into landscape mode

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The below method works great for a regular table. I was wondering if there is a command phrase to shrink/resize the table in the sideways mode. I think problem is because of \textwidth which obviously doesn't work in the landscape mode.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{%
  \begin{tabular}{cc}
    Knuth & Lamport
  \end{tabular}}
\end{table}

\end{document}

This code was taken from the following link on this forum.
Changing the font size in a table

UPDATE:

Here's my MWE that utilizes tabularx but for some reason, I can't get the table sizing right. In portrait mode, text is getting too small with the \resizebox command. So, I've decided to make only this page to landscape mode.

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{graphicx,xcolor}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage[centertags]{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{newlfont}
\usepackage[version = 3]{mhchem}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{array}

\begin{document}
\begin{sidewaystable}
\caption{Kinetic parameters for oxygen reduction mechanism in MCFC cathode.}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{X|X|X|X|X|X|X|X}
\hline
\hline
\multicolumn{8}{c}{$i_o = i_o^o (O_2)^a (CO_2)^b$} \\
\multicolumn{8}{c}{$i_o$ = Bulk exchange current density, $mA/cm^2$} \\
\multicolumn{8}{c}{$i_o^o$ = Standard exchange current density, $mA/cm^2$} \\
\hline
 $i_o$ $mA/cm^2$ & a & b & Method & Electrode & Dominant Mechanism & Electrolyte &   Reference \\
\hline
 & 0.85 & -0.45 & Potential-step, AC Imped. & Au(ref), Ni(cathode) & Superoxide & 62/38 Li-K &  \\
 10,27,39 & 0.1 & -0.15 & Potential-step, Coul. relax., and AC Imped. & Au smooth & Superoxide & 43/57 Li-K eutectic & \\
11,26.3 & 0.1 & -0.15 & SS potentiostatic, potential step & Au smooth & Superoxide & Li, Li-K eutectic &  \\
0.023-0.065 & - & - & SS potentiostatic & Au smooth &  & Li-Na-K eutectic &  \\
10 & 0.15 & -0.15 & Potential-step & Au, smooth & Superoxide & & \\
- & 0.3 & 0 & SS, kinetic control assumed & NiO, porous &  & & Tang (1980) \\
- & 0.6 & 0.6 &  & NiO, porous &  & & Tang (1980) \\
~1 & 0.5 & 0 & C & NiO, porous & & &  \\
4-7 & - & - & Transient potentiostatic & Au & & & IGT Proj 9105 \\
0.78 & 0.2 & 0.2 & Modeling of SS data & NiO, porous & Peroxide & Na-K &  \\
0.16-0.5 & 0.875 & -0.25 & Modeling of SS data & NiO, porous & & &  \\
0.01-0.03 & - & - & Potential-sweep & Au & Peroxide & Na-K, Li &  \\    
& 0.375 & -1.25 & Modeling of SS data & NiO, porous &  & &  \\
& 0.4 & 0 & Modeling of SS data & SS porous & Superoxide & Li-Na-K, Li-K & This work \\
\hline  
\end{tabularx}
\end{sidewaystable} 
\end{document}

Best Answer

The table is vertically too big for being rotated; a font size reduction is necessary anyway. I get a decent result with

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{graphicx,xcolor}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage[centertags]{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage[version = 3]{mhchem}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{ragged2e}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}

\caption{Kinetic parameters for oxygen reduction mechanism in MCFC cathode.}

\scriptsize
\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\RaggedRight\arraybackslash}X}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}c|>{$}c<{$}|>{$}c<{$}|Y|Y|Y|Y|Y@{}}
\hline
\hline
\multicolumn{8}{c}{$i_o = i_o^o (O_2)^a (CO_2)^b$} \\
\multicolumn{8}{c}{$i_o$ = Bulk exchange current density, $mA/cm^2$} \\
\multicolumn{8}{c}{$i_o^o$ = Standard exchange current density, $mA/cm^2$} \\
\hline
 $i_o$ mA/cm$^2$ & a & b & Method & Electrode & Dominant Mechanism & Electrolyte &   Reference \\
\hline
 & 0.85 & -0.45 & Potential-step, AC Imped. & Au(ref), Ni(cathode) & Superoxide & 62/38 Li-K &  \\
 10,27,39 & 0.1 & -0.15 & Potential-step, Coul. relax., and AC Imped. & Au smooth & Superoxide & 43/57 Li-K eutectic & \\
11,26.3 & 0.1 & -0.15 & SS potentiostatic, potential step & Au smooth & Superoxide & Li, Li-K eutectic &  \\
0.023-0.065 & - & - & SS potentiostatic & Au smooth &  & Li-Na-K eutectic &  \\
10 & 0.15 & -0.15 & Potential-step & Au, smooth & Superoxide & & \\
- & 0.3 & 0 & SS, kinetic control assumed & NiO, porous &  & & Tang (1980) \\
- & 0.6 & 0.6 &  & NiO, porous &  & & Tang (1980) \\
~1 & 0.5 & 0 & C & NiO, porous & & &  \\
4-7 & - & - & Transient potentiostatic & Au & & & IGT Proj 9105 \\
0.78 & 0.2 & 0.2 & Modeling of SS data & NiO, porous & Peroxide & Na-K &  \\
0.16-0.5 & 0.875 & -0.25 & Modeling of SS data & NiO, porous & & &  \\
0.01-0.03 & - & - & Potential-sweep & Au & Peroxide & Na-K, Li &  \\    
& 0.375 & -1.25 & Modeling of SS data & NiO, porous &  & &  \\
& 0.4 & 0 & Modeling of SS data & SS porous & Superoxide & Li-Na-K, Li-K & This work \\
\hline  
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}
\end{document}

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There are several problems in the table, I fixed some; however the names of the chemical elements are still wrong and you should fix them with mchem commands.

If you decide for a rotated table, you can use \footnotesize:

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{graphicx,xcolor}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage[centertags]{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage[version = 3]{mhchem}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{ragged2e}

\begin{document}
\begin{sidewaystable}

\caption{Kinetic parameters for oxygen reduction mechanism in MCFC cathode.}

\footnotesize
\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\RaggedRight\arraybackslash}X}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}c|>{$}c<{$}|>{$}c<{$}|Y|Y|Y|Y|Y@{}}
\hline
\hline
\multicolumn{8}{c}{$i_o = i_o^o (O_2)^a (CO_2)^b$} \\
\multicolumn{8}{c}{$i_o$ = Bulk exchange current density, $mA/cm^2$} \\
\multicolumn{8}{c}{$i_o^o$ = Standard exchange current density, $mA/cm^2$} \\
\hline
 $i_o$ mA/cm$^2$ & a & b & Method & Electrode & Dominant Mechanism & Electrolyte &   Reference \\
\hline
 & 0.85 & -0.45 & Potential-step, AC Imped. & Au(ref), Ni(cathode) & Superoxide & 62/38 Li-K &  \\
 10,27,39 & 0.1 & -0.15 & Potential-step, Coul. relax., and AC Imped. & Au smooth & Superoxide & 43/57 Li-K eutectic & \\
11,26.3 & 0.1 & -0.15 & SS potentiostatic, potential step & Au smooth & Superoxide & Li, Li-K eutectic &  \\
0.023-0.065 & - & - & SS potentiostatic & Au smooth &  & Li-Na-K eutectic &  \\
10 & 0.15 & -0.15 & Potential-step & Au, smooth & Superoxide & & \\
- & 0.3 & 0 & SS, kinetic control assumed & NiO, porous &  & & Tang (1980) \\
- & 0.6 & 0.6 &  & NiO, porous &  & & Tang (1980) \\
~1 & 0.5 & 0 & C & NiO, porous & & &  \\
4-7 & - & - & Transient potentiostatic & Au & & & IGT Proj 9105 \\
0.78 & 0.2 & 0.2 & Modeling of SS data & NiO, porous & Peroxide & Na-K &  \\
0.16-0.5 & 0.875 & -0.25 & Modeling of SS data & NiO, porous & & &  \\
0.01-0.03 & - & - & Potential-sweep & Au & Peroxide & Na-K, Li &  \\    
& 0.375 & -1.25 & Modeling of SS data & NiO, porous &  & &  \\
& 0.4 & 0 & Modeling of SS data & SS porous & Superoxide & Li-Na-K, Li-K & This work \\
\hline  
\end{tabularx}
\end{sidewaystable} 
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] How to change certain pages into landscape/portrait mode

Try the lscape package:

% lscape.sty Produce landscape pages in a (mainly) portrait document.
\usepackage{lscape}
...
\begin{landscape}
...
\end{landscape}

This modifies the margins and rotates the page contents but not the page number. Useful, for example, with large multipage tables, and is compatible with the packages longtable and supertabular.

If you are using pdfLaTeX, you should use pdflscape instead. The pdflscape package adds PDF support to the landscape environment of package lscape, by setting the PDF/Rotate page attribute. Pages with this attribute will be displayed in landscape orientation by conforming PDF viewers:

\usepackage{pdflscape}
...
\begin{landscape}
...
\end{landscape}

[Tex/LaTex] How to make this table fit on a landscape page

This makes it fit, I fixed the headings to use a correct font (never set multi-letter words in math italic) but then I commented out the whole heading. The column widths were dominated by the heading widths. Obviously you need some heading but I don't have the subject knowledge to suggest alternative heading layout.

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\usepackage{pdflscape,array,booktabs}

\begin{document}

\begin{landscape}
\setlength\tabcolsep{1pt}
\footnotesize
% Table generated by Excel2LaTeX from sheet 'Sheet1'
\begin{table}[htbp]
  \centering
\vspace*{-1.5cm}
  \caption{Add caption}
    \hspace*{-5pt}\begin{tabular}{>{\raggedright}p{2.2cm}cccccccccccc}
    \toprule
%     Dependent variable: &
%\multicolumn{2}{c}{$CoJPoD_{\mathrm{{sov \ system|sov}}}$}&
%\multicolumn{2}{c}{$\Delta CoJPoD_{\mathrm{sov \ system|sov}}$}&
%\multicolumn{2}{c}{$CoJPoD_{\mathrm{sov|sov \ system}}$}&
%\multicolumn{2}{c}{$CoJPoD_{\mathrm{bank \ system|sov}}$}&
%\multicolumn{2}{c}{$\Delta CoJPoD_{\mathrm{bank \ system|sov}}$}&
%\multicolumn{2}{c}{$CoJPoD_{\mathrm{sov|bank \ system}}$}\\
%    \midrule
          &       &       &       &       &       &       &       &       &       &       &       &  \\
          & \textbf{(1)} & \textbf{(2)} & \textbf{(3)} & \textbf{(4)} & \textbf{(5)} & \textbf{(6)} & (7)   & (8)   & (9)   & (10)  & (11)  & (12) \\
          &       &       &       &       &       &       &       &       &       &       &       &  \\
    Constant & -11.116*** & -10.212*** & -6.668*** & -5.740*** & 13.194*** & 13.903*** & -7.270*** & -7.551*** & -6.224*** & -6.290*** & 16.927*** & 17.078*** \\
          & (-2.975) & (-3.600) & (-2.980) & (-3.000) & (3.634) & (3.570) & (-2.607) & (-2.931) & (-2.907) & (-3.312) & (4.759) & (3.880) \\
    Market Ret (6 months rolling) (\%) & 0.001*** &       & 0.001*** &       & 0.000 &       & 0.000 &       & 0.000* &       & -0.000* &  \\
          & (3.065) &       & (3.696) &       & (-0.016) &       & (1.086) &       & (1.652) &       & (-1.862) &  \\
    Market Vol (6 months rolling) (\%) & 0.008 &       & 0.009 &       & 0.008 &       & -0.008 &       & -0.002 &       & -0.001 &  \\
          & (0.696) &       & (1.143) &       & (0.464) &       & (-1.049) &       & (-0.301) &       & (-0.083) &  \\
    Market Ret (1 month avg) (\%) &       & 0.025*** &       & 0.020*** &       & -0.020** &       & 0.011** &       & 0.012*** &       & -0.029** \\
          &       & (3.235) &       & (3.606) &       & (-2.118) &       & (2.283) &       & (3.247) &       & (-2.530) \\
    Market Vol (1 month avg) (\%) &       & -0.020*** &       & -0.017*** &       & 0.001 &       & -0.010*** &       & -0.006*** &       & 0.004 \\
          &       & (-4.329) &       & (-5.025) &       & (0.105) &       & (-3.444) &       & (-2.804) &       & (0.449) \\
    Log GDP & 0.913*** & 0.840*** & 0.550*** & 0.475*** & -1.180*** & -1.239*** & 0.602** & 0.626*** & 0.522*** & 0.529*** & -1.492*** & -1.505*** \\
          & (2.922) & (3.529) & (2.960) & (3.008) & (-3.878) & (-3.778) & (2.570) & (2.893) & (2.913) & (3.324) & (-4.890) & (-3.976) \\
    Debt/GDP (\%) & 0.004*** & 0.004*** & 0.002** & 0.002** & 0.004* & 0.004* & 0.003*** & 0.003*** & 0.002** & 0.002** & 0.003 & 0.003 \\
          & (2.836) & (2.861) & (1.981) & (1.975) & (1.775) & (1.764) & (2.657) & (2.689) & (2.062) & (2.075) & (1.540) & (1.566) \\
    Reserve/Debt (\%) & 0.069** & 0.071** & 0.043** & 0.045** & 0.075** & 0.073** & 0.051*** & 0.053*** & 0.036*** & 0.037*** & 0.057** & 0.055** \\
          & (2.512) & (2.372) & (2.130) & (1.964) & (2.405) & (2.367) & (2.974) & (3.099) & (2.746) & (2.803) & (2.204) & (2.202) \\
    Term Spread (\%) & 0.042*** & 0.042*** & 0.038*** & 0.037*** & 0.012 & 0.015** & 0.012*** & 0.010*** & 0.009*** & 0.008*** & -0.003 & -0.002 \\
          & (6.331) & (6.990) & (7.131) & (7.323) & (1.330) & (1.985) & (4.036) & (4.962) & (3.790) & (5.111) & (-0.248) & (-0.186) \\
    VSTOXX (\%) & 0.004*** & 0.004*** & 0.003*** & 0.003*** & 0.008*** & 0.008*** & 0.003*** & 0.003*** & 0.001*** & 0.001*** & 0.007*** & 0.007*** \\
          & (4.920) & (4.380) & (4.450) & (3.916) & (7.650) & (8.089) & (6.285) & (6.200) & (3.514) & (3.497) & (5.211) & (6.388) \\
          &       &       &       &       &       &       &       &       &       &       &       &  \\
    Bank fixed effects & Yes   & Yes   & Yes   & Yes   & Yes   & Yes   & Yes   & Yes   & Yes   & Yes   & Yes   & Yes \\
    No. of observations & 620   & 620   & 620   & 620   & 620   & 620   & 620   & 620   & 620   & 620   & 620   & 620 \\
    Adjusted R\^2 & 0.728 & 0.720 & 0.774 & 0.761 & 0.822 & 0.822 & 0.718 & 0.721 & 0.772 & 0.774 & 0.784 & 0.785 \\
    \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}\hspace*{-5pt}%
  \label{tab:addlabel}%
\end{table}%

\end{landscape}

\end{document}

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