Btukfyl

Hi I have the following table. Is there a way to set the width of the column. I want to minimize the column width so that it could fit my journal template.

documentclass{article}

usepackage{amsmath}

usepackage{tabular}



begin{document}

 begin{table}[ht!]

      caption{Sensitivity Analysis of the Parameters in the Inventory model} 

      label{tab:my tab}

      begin{tabular}{|lcc{1cm}||cccccc|}

          hline

          multirow{3}{*}{Parameters}&

          multirow{3}{*}{Values}&

          multirow{3}{*}{% Change}&

          multicolumn{6}{|c|}{Change in}\ cline{4-9}

          &&&$T$&$t_1$&$TVC$&$S$&$P$&$Q$ \ hline

end{tabular}

end{document}

• i suspect, that your document has two columns


• prescribe column width, which is smaller than width of cells content can lead to new problems (you can't always relay on hyphenation)


• 
  

  a solution can be use tabular* with prescibe table width equal column width, set tabcolsep to 3pt and use @{extracolsep{fill}}:

  
  
  

  documentclass[twocolumn]{article} % <---
  
  usepackage{amsmath}
  
  usepackage{multirow} % <---
  
  
  
  %---------------- show page layout. don't use in a real document!
  
  usepackage{showframe}
  
  renewcommandShowFrameLinethickness{0.15pt}
  
  renewcommand*ShowFrameColor{color{red}}
  
  %---------------------------------------------------------------%
  
  usepackage{lipsum}
  
  
  
  begin{document}
  
  lipsum[1]
  
   begin{table}[htb]
  
   small % <---
  
   setlengthtabcolsep{3pt} % <---
  
        caption{Sensitivity Analysis of the Parameters in the Inventory model}
  
        label{tab:my tab}
  
        begin{tabular*}{linewidth}{@{extracolsep{fill}} % <---
  
                                      |lcc||cc cc cc|}
  
            hline
  
            multirow{2}{*}{textit{Parameters}}   &
  
            multirow{2}{*}{textit{Values}}       &
  
            multirow{2}{*}{textit{% Change}}    &
  
            multicolumn{6}{c|}{Change in}              \ cline{4-9}
  
            & &   & $T$   & $t_1$ & $TVC$ & $S$ & $P$ & $Q$   \ hline
  
  end{tabular*}
  
  end{table}
  
  lipsum[2-8]
  
  end{document}
  
  

  
  

which gives:

(red lines indicate text borders)