How to center cell contents of a LaTeX table whose columns have fixed widths?
Consider the following piece of LaTeX code:
\begin{tabular}{p{1in}p{1in}}
A & B\\
C & D\\
\end{tabular}
How can I make the contents of each cell aligned in the center of the cell rather than the left? Note that I want to make sure that the widths of my columns are fixed, so I cannot use the "c" position attribute instead of "p{.1in}" to center my cell contents.
Answer
\usepackage{array} in the preamble
then this:
\begin{tabular}{| >{\centering\arraybackslash}m{1in} | >{\centering\arraybackslash}m{1in} |}
note that the "m" for fixed with column is provided by the array package, and will give you vertical centering (if you don't want this just go back to "p"