I'm aware that my table is too wide as it keeps going off the page on the right.
Is there a way to fix this?
I'm using lyx as I am a learner.
[Tex/LaTex] Stop table going off page
lyxtables
Related Solutions
In response to part 2 of the user's question:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\parindent 0in\parskip 1ex
\begin{document}
Textwidth:\\
\rule{\textwidth}{0.3ex}\par
First, let's create an oversized table:\par
\def\x{%
\begin{tabular}{|p{2in}|p{2in}|p{1.5in}|}
\hline
First column & Second column & Third Column \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
}
\x\par
Now I will scale the table to 79 percent of original\par
\scalebox{.79}{\x}
\end{document}
Right click a cell in the right column, and choose More --> Settings. Under Column settings, set the Width to a specific value. This will enable line breaking in that column.
Best Answer
In LyX insert the two lines in ERT (Evil Red Text) mode (Ctrl-L) just before and after your tabular. In the documents preamble add
\usepackage{graphicx}if not already present.This is how you add a new package: Use custom latex package in LyX