[Tex/LaTex] Table exceeds the page width

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I have a large table, and I don't want it to exceed the page limit. Please see the code below.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[table,xcdraw]{xcolor}

\begin{document}    
\begin{table}[]
\centering
\caption{My caption}
\label{my-label}
\begin{tabular}{
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\hline
DM    & Option   & States &   &   &   &   &   &   &   &   &    &    &    &    &    &    &    &    &    &    &    &    &    &    &    &    &    \\ \hline
X     & Option A & N      & Y & N & N & Y & N & N & Y & N & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  \\
      & Option B & N      & N & Y & N & N & Y & N & N & N & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  \\
Y     & Option C & N      & N & N & Y & Y & Y & N & N & N & N  & N  & Y  & Y  & Y  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & Y  & Y  & Y  & N  & N  & N  \\
      & Option D & N      & N & N & N & N & N & Y & Y & N & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & Y  & Y  & Y  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & Y  & Y  & Y  \\
Z     & Option E & Y      & Y & Y & Y & Y & Y & Y & Y & N & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  \\
      & Option F & N      & N & N & N & N & N & N & N & Y & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  \\
      & Option G & N      & N & N & N & N & N & N & N & N & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  \\ \hline
Label &          & 1      & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 & 8 & 9 & 10 & 11 & 12 & 13 & 14 & 15 & 16 & 17 & 18 & 19 & 20 & 21 & 22 & 23 & 24 & 25 & 26 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Best Answer

The table is much too wide for a normal portrait page.

Therefore the following example rotates it via environment sidewaystable of package rotating.
The width of the table is still too large, therefore it is decreased by reducing the space between columns via setting \tabcolsep to a smaller value.
The background color is set by a simple \colorbox instead of coloring each column individually with the same color. \colorbox uses an additional margin, which is controlled by \fboxsep, which is set to zero here locally.
The lines are set by the macros of package booktabs, which have a nicer spacing behavior.
Package caption fixes the vertical spacing around table caption, which appear on top of the tabular.

Example file:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage[table,xcdraw]{xcolor}
\usepackage{rotating}
\begin{document}
  \begin{sidewaystable}
    \caption{My caption}
    \label{my-label}
    \setlength{\fboxsep}{0pt}%
    \setlength{\tabcolsep}{.73\tabcolsep}%
    \colorbox[HTML]{EFEFEF}{%
      \begin{tabular}{*{28}{l}}%
        \toprule
        DM    & Option   & \multicolumn{26}{c}{States} \\
        \midrule
        X     & Option A & N      & Y & N & N & Y & N & N & Y & N & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  \\
              & Option B & N      & N & Y & N & N & Y & N & N & N & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  & N  & N  & Y  \\
        Y     & Option C & N      & N & N & Y & Y & Y & N & N & N & N  & N  & Y  & Y  & Y  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & Y  & Y  & Y  & N  & N  & N  \\
              & Option D & N      & N & N & N & N & N & Y & Y & N & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & Y  & Y  & Y  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & Y  & Y  & Y  \\
        Z     & Option E & Y      & Y & Y & Y & Y & Y & Y & Y & N & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  \\
              & Option F & N      & N & N & N & N & N & N & N & Y & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  \\
              & Option G & N      & N & N & N & N & N & N & N & N & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & N  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  & Y  \\
        \midrule
        Label &          & 1      & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 & 8 & 9 & 10 & 11 & 12 & 13 & 14 & 15 & 16 & 17 & 18 & 19 & 20 & 21 & 22 & 23 & 24 & 25 & 26 \\
        \bottomrule
      \end{tabular}%
    }%
  \end{sidewaystable}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Table exceeds page

You can either fix the column width by specifying a paragraph style p{<len>}, or you can use a different tabular environment that stretches according to the contents up to the maximum width of the text block. The latter is provided by the tabularx package which defines the environment tabularx with an additional width-of-table argument, as well as the stretchable X column specifier.

An example of the first suggestion:

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\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[a4paper,left=15mm,right=15mm, top=1cm, bottom=2cm]{geometry}% http://ctan.org/pkg/geometry
\begin{document}
\noindent\begin{tabular}{|l|c|p{0.7\linewidth}|}
  \hline
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  \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

An example of the second suggestion:

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\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[a4paper,left=15mm,right=15mm, top=1cm, bottom=2cm]{geometry}% http://ctan.org/pkg/geometry
\usepackage{tabularx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/tabularx
\begin{document}
\noindent\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{|l|c|X|}
  \hline
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  \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}

The tabularx approach is an easy way out since you don't have to worry about specifying a column width that exactly matches the remaining column space on the page. However, it is possible to calculate the appropriate value of <len> when using the p{<len>} column specifier.

[Tex/LaTex] Tabular and grid typesetting

Using David's suggestion, I used

\let\oldtabular\tabular
\let\oldendtabular\endtabular
\def\tabular{\setlength{\lineskiplimit}{0pt}\oldtabular}
\def\endtabular{\oldendtabular\setlength{\lineskiplimit}{-10pt}}

which more or less seems to fix the problem. If anyone has a more elegant/better solution, please let me know!

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