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How to get an extra wide table on the paper?
Problem
Some tables could become very wide, sometimes even wider as the paper width. One solution could be taken the whole tabular in a small environment. But there is a better way.
Solution
An esay way is to change the orientation of the table, by using usepackage lscape, which allows to change the orientation of the page and therefor also the table.
Example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lscape}
\begin{document}
% An extra wide table
\begin{landscape}
After this point, everthing is displayed in landscape format.\\
\ \\
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
Year & 2000 & 2001 & 2002 & 2003 & 2004 & 2005 & 2006 & 2007 & 2008 & 2009 & 2010 \\
\hline
GPD in billions & 235 & 225 bn & 223 bn & 323 & 423 & 523 & 624 & 725 & 826 & 924 & 1022 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{landscape}
After this point, everthing is displayed in portrait format.\\
\end{document}
Output:
Hint
After \begin{landscape} and after \end{landscape} is an automatic page break.