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How to adjust a table to fit on page?
As already mentioned in https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/97506/2975 you can use esizebox or better adjustbox to scale the table to a specific width, e.g. extwidth which is the width of the text on the page. This however might make your table text very small and hard to read.
How to create fixed width table columns with text raggedright?
With the package ragged2e you can issue the command \\RaggedRight outside the tabular environment and get ragged right inside p- or m-columns of a tabular environment. You can even remove the width settings of the columns to use the natural widths.
Is there a way to increase the size of a table?
This however might make your table text very small and hard to read. One way to increase your table is to make it actually wider than the text but still keep it centered as explained for figures in https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/16584/2975.
How to specify the width of a column?
The general syntax is > {command} before the actual column specifier. \\centering changes the meaning of \\\\, thus \\arraybackslash has been used to restore that. Have a look at the array documentation to learn more. The “x” column takes its width as argument.
Is there a way to shrink an Excel document to one page?
By scaling your worksheet for printing, you can make your data fit to one page. You can shrink your Excel document to fit data on a designated number of pages using the Page Setup option in the Page Layout tab. Shrink a worksheet to fit on one page
How do I change the width of my table?
If you don’t want AutoFit to automatically adjust your table or column width, you can turn it off. Select your table. On the Layout tab, in the Cell Size group, click AutoFit. Click Fixed Column Width. Rest the cursor on the table until the table resize handle appears at the lower-right corner of the table.
What to do when table exceeds word page margins?
Your first instinct may be to change the page orientation to landscape or change the width of your margins to fit it on the page, but that would adversely affect the rest of your document. The next step may be to use the mouse to click and drag the column borders until all the columns fit across the page.