Tables in LaTeX || Full Tutorial || Intro to LaTeX Episode 8

Check out the previous videos in my LaTeX playlist:

0:00 Getting started in Overleaf
0:51 Basics of tabular
1:45 Column alignment and vertical or horizontal lines
2:35 Specifying widths and linebreaks
4:41 Table properties in the preamble
6:55 Multiple rows and columns
10:26 Coloring cells, rows, and columns
13:01 Formatting cells
13:24 Alternating row colors
14:39 The table environment, placement, captions, labels
17:01 Other packages
17:44 Cool Overleaf features

This video is all about using tables in LaTeX. I'll show you the basics of the tabular environment, how to make rows and columns, vertical and horizontal lines, how to align text to the left, center, or right, how to specify widths and text breaks, multiple rows and columns, fancy colors and formatting, captions, labels, and much more!

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[dasunpremathilaka]

Much awaited video! I can't thank you enough for the LaTeX tutorial series, Dr. Trefor. 👏🙌

[keira]

I've watched many of your LaTeX tutorials and now I'm comfortable to write my homework in it :)

[tayoukachukwu]

Thanks a lot for this great and useful video. Looking forward to more videos on the beauty of Latex and Overleaf

[CarlosFloresP]

I'm just writing this message to tell you're a god among youtubers. Your content is 10/10. Ty sir

[DrJaneLuciferian]

Thank you for these videos. Before I was using texmaker and switched to overleaf this semester because of the spell checker. This is only my second semester using latex, so it's still early days; your videos help a lot :^).

[wjrasmussen]

New Latex Video! Perfect start to Monday.

[mvpoiriervideo]

This playlist series has been great for me and my students, thank you!

[physicshalt]

your videos are really great!!!! waiting for next

[FelipeBalbi]

Not sure if you know the package, but I find booktabs to be super helpful. 👍

[reneriha]

Although I solely type in Latex, the tables are quite cumbersome. I ussually use some online table editors which then give you the code to copy to your main document.

[FelipeBalbi]

Interesting choice for number formatting. I tend to always put numbers in math mode (between $$) and for the thousand separator I just use a small space (\, ).

[TranquilSeaOfMath]

Great video. I learned I didn't understand something corr8 that I was using. I also learned new things. Thank you for this help.

[AxiomTutor]

Some things I'd love to see in a future video if you have some thoughts about them: Making tables is a fragile nightmare! Is there a better way to make fast tables? Ideally you could just write some command, enter space- or comma-separated values, with line-breaks, and it will make a basic table (and maybe even control the styling of it in some style sheet or something). Even better if one could use tabs or other whitespace to accomplish easy and fast visual alignment of the columns. That probably doesn't exist, but if you know of anything that approximates it, would love to hear it.

Also, how would you make macros for, say, matrices with a varying number of dimensions?

Can you make macros for diagrammatic stuff? Like say you are going to make a document with a bunch of geometry constructions and they're all visually similar and require similar commands -- could you make a macro designed to make it quicker and easier to churn out a bunch of diagrams? And then say that you want to make a bunch of group lattices, could you then write a macro that makes this especially quick too?

[mrinalnath]

Thank you, Sir for this nice tutorial .I have a little request for you. It would be really helpful if you make a video on William Feller's solution for the St. Petersburg Paradox. And also a full course on probability and statistics.

[mikawatzel]

really cool video, helped me a lot with my physics homework.
Looking forward to my next few projects it would be nice if you could do a tutorial on using .csv data (for combined usage of python and latex) and making automatic tables. (if thats possible anyways😅 Thank you keep up!

[julianjipe]

My english sucks, but bro, i understood you better than any other youtube tutorial

[gregtourte]

tabu should not be used as it is now completely broken. but tabularray and nicematrix should really get a mentions these days. Also formatting number columns with siunitx.

[estebanfeliperojasnunez]

La documentación de overleaf me recomendó estos tutoriales.

[nithinjoseph]

Perfect! Thanks a million! Just one question though which the video didn't address - How do I make a row-wise table in LaTeX ? By that I mean the headings should be in the rows instead of columns. Thanks.

[azad]

Sir, how do you reduce empty space between text and figures / tables in Overleaf? Spacing between captions and spacing between images and text is my biggest nightmare and very grateful for any hints on these. Thank you very much