adjust row spacing in a latex table

May 25th, 2007 by Lawrence David

to adjust the spacing between rows in a latex table, add square brackets and the size adjustment after the linebreak.

for instance, to compress rows by 1 inch:

entry1 & entry2 & entry3 \\[-1in]

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on 06 Apr 2008 at 5:51 pm Victor Ramiro

Cool!
Do you know how to adjust the spacing between rows, but for all the tabular?

cheers,
Victor
on 07 Apr 2008 at 7:06 am Lawrence David

Sorry, don’t know that!
on 15 Sep 2008 at 11:24 am Mickael

Hi,

you can write something like that :

\begin{table}[!ht]\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{2}\addtolength{\tabcolsep}{-1pt}
\begin{center}
\label{ResumeContact}
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{cccc}
…
etc
on 14 Nov 2010 at 10:37 am Amber

Thanks Mickael! That helped so, so much.
on 19 Dec 2010 at 10:31 am Pas

and how about the space between the columns? I mean, is it possible to adjust the minimal distance between a cell’s content and its left and right edge?

Thanks a lot in advance!
on 19 Feb 2011 at 3:50 am sst

Pas,

\setlength{\tabcolsep}{5pt}

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