I have a table, which seems to be too wide for my page and it pops out of the page border.
In lyx, it is like
And in PDF, it looks like, it is going out of the page border.
How can I address such issue ?
[Tex/LaTex] Table too wide to go out of the page.
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Related Solutions
\noindent\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{%
... your tabular ...
}
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
You could use any of the methods described in Wider tables in LaTeX, which is the best solution? Here's a LyX take on it:
Insert an ERT before your table and include the necessary LaTeX code, followed by an ERT after to complete the grouping, if necessary. For example:
In the LyX "LaTeX Source" window, this will result in:
\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{%
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
a & b & c & d & e & f & g & h & i & j & k & l & m & n & o\tabularnewline
\hline
\hline
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 & 8 & 9 & 10 & 11 & 12 & 13 & 14 & 15\tabularnewline
\hline
15 & 14 & 13 & 12 & 11 & 10 & 9 & 8 & 7 & 6 & 5 & 4 & 3 & 2 & 1\tabularnewline
\hline
4 & 5 & 6 & 7 & 8 & 9 & 10 & 11 & 12 & 13 & 14 & 15 & 1 & 2 & 3\tabularnewline
\hline
\end{tabular}}
which appropriately uses % to avoid a spurious space (as reference, see What is the use of percent signs (%) at the end of lines?). Make sure you add the package graphicx to your LaTeX preamble (Document > Settings... > LaTeX preamble).
Depending on the location of this table, you may have to prepend the ERT with \noindent. For example, inside a table environment, there is usually no indent, while inside the regular document body, indents are common. \noindent would remove this indent.
Best Answer
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.