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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]

Posted in LaTeX | 8 Comments »

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8 Responses to “adjust row spacing in a latex table”

1. 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

2. on 07 Apr 2008 at 7:06 am   Lawrence David

   Sorry, don’t know that!

3. 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

4. on 14 Nov 2010 at 10:37 am   Amber

   Thanks Mickael! That helped so, so much.

5. 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!

6. on 19 Feb 2011 at 3:50 am   sst

   Pas,

   \setlength{\tabcolsep}{5pt}

7. on 14 Feb 2012 at 5:05 pm   Li

   When I do this :

   \begin{table}[!h]
   \begin{center}
   \caption{Resultados dos testes de hipótese}\label{tab:fremantle_modelos}
   \begin{tabular}
   {c|c|c c}
   \hline \hline \\
   entry1&entry2$entry3&entry4 \\
   etc..

   Only the first vertical line is complete, the others start at second line.
   How should I do?
   Thank you.

8. on 06 Jan 2013 at 6:09 am   kk

   add \\[5pt] to the end of each row would increase the height of each row