LaTeX Table Generator

Select the cells in Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice or Numbers, copy, click cell A1 in the LaTeX table generator and paste. The spreadsheet arrives as tab-separated text, so every cell lands in its own column, and a block of at least two rows and two columns pasted into A1 replaces the whole table, so no empty columns are left over.

Yes. In the LaTeX table generator, use Import, then open a .csv, .tsv or .txt file or paste its contents. Quoted fields with commas, doubled quotes and line breaks inside a cell are read the way spreadsheet programs write them. Semicolon-separated files from European versions of Excel are detected too.

Yes. Paste tabular, tabularx, longtable or xltabular code (tabu and tabularray's tblr, talltblr and longtblr too, and the tables R and Stata write with xtable, kableExtra, stargazer, modelsummary or esttab) into any cell or into Import, and the LaTeX table generator reads it back into the grid. Cells, \multicolumn and \multirow spans, booktabs or \hline rules (\cline, double rules and uneven vertical lines such as |l|c|cc| stay as written), bold cells and columns set bold with >{\bfseries}, cell and row colors (as the nearest of the five fills), \tabcolsep, the caption and the label are read back, so you can edit visually and copy fresh code. What the LaTeX table generator can’t hold, such as extra row spacing, is listed in the import message.

Yes. The last button in the LaTeX table generator toolbar (under More on a phone or touch tablet) transposes the table, so a sheet laid out with one row per measure can become one column per measure. Merges and the bold, italics and fills set on cells move with them, so a heading across columns becomes a label down rows; the old label columns become the header rows. Column settings (rounding, bold-best, alignment) and rules between row groups belong to the old orientation: they are set aside and come back when you swap again (Undo works too). The result is cut to 400 rows and 40 columns.

Up to 400 rows and 40 columns. Anything longer than a page should use longtable, which repeats the header on every page; anything wider than the page is easier to read split into two tables.

Yes. Copy the table code into your Overleaf project and move the \usepackage lines it starts with (as comments, also listed under Preamble) into the preamble, or press Open in Overleaf to start a new project containing a complete document with your table. Overleaf may ask you to sign in to its own site for that step.

Ten characters have special meanings: & % $ # _ { } ~ ^ and the backslash. An unescaped & starts a new column, so a cell like “R&D” breaks the row. The LaTeX table generator escapes them by default while leaving $math$ and \commands you typed alone; you can also escape everything or treat cells as raw LaTeX.

In the LaTeX table generator, drag across the cells (or click one and Shift+click another) and press Merge. A merge across columns becomes \multicolumn; a merge down rows becomes \multirow from the multirow package, and the cells below keep their empty placeholders so every row still has the right number of columns. Split undoes it.

booktabs is a package that adds \toprule, \midrule and \bottomrule: rules of different weights with proper spacing around them, and no vertical lines. Most journals and style guides prefer that look, so the LaTeX table generator starts with it. If your template wants every border, choose All borders under Table settings.

Yes. In the LaTeX table generator, click a column letter and set Bold the best value to highest or lowest. The winner is chosen from the numbers as they are printed after rounding, ties are all bold, and the header row is ignored. Changing a number moves the bold automatically.

Set the column type to Numbers on the decimal point and the LaTeX table generator switches to siunitx. The column becomes a siunitx S column with a table-format worked out from your data, text in that column (like the header) is wrapped in braces so siunitx leaves it alone, and bold best values use \bfseries with detect-weight.

Only the ones your table uses, listed under the code with a reason each: booktabs for the default rules, plus multirow, siunitx, array, tabularx, longtable or xltabular, graphicx, rotating, xcolor, makecell, capt-of, amssymb, pifont or float when a feature calls for them, fontspec and xeCJK when the table needs XeLaTeX, and packages for commands you type yourself, such as \num or \url. A plain grid table needs none.

The package that defines the command isn't loaded. The code the LaTeX table generator copies starts with the \usepackage lines it needs, as comments: remove the % and move those lines to the top of your document, above \begin{document}. The table itself goes where it should appear. Full document and Open in Overleaf already have them in place.

Type them in Notes under the table, under Table settings: the LaTeX table generator writes them in footnote size under the table (after a long table), and reads them back when you import its code or a threeparttable. For notes that wrap exactly to the table width, load threeparttable and wrap the tabular in a threeparttable environment.

It rounds to a fixed number of decimal places per column (0 to 4), which is what most results tables need. For significant figures, siunitx can do it at compile time with round-mode=figures in an S column.

Mostly: APA tables use horizontal rules only, which is the booktabs setting, with the caption above. APA also sets the table number in bold and the title in italics on separate lines; the apa7 class or the caption package does that for every table in the document.

Most style guides (APA, IEEE, ACM, many journals) caption tables above and figures below, and booktabs spacing assumes it. Choose Below the table under Caption position if your template wants it the other way.

Yes. All borders draws every vertical and horizontal line; the fill menu in the toolbar (under More on a phone or touch tablet) shades cells with \cellcolor, and Shade alternate rows adds \rowcolors. The LaTeX table generator loads xcolor with the table option for both.

Pick IEEEtran or acmart in Paper, in the pinned bar with the verdict (on a phone, at the top of Will it fit the page). The preview draws the 252pt IEEE column (241pt for ACM) and reports how many points the table overflows by, then lists fixes, each re-measured: tighter column spacing, two-line headers, a smaller type size, a wrapping column with tabularx (xltabular for a long table), spanning both columns with table*, scaling with \resizebox, or a sideways page.

Usually a smaller font. \resizebox is the last resort, which is why the LaTeX table generator lists it after gentler fixes: it scales the type, the rules and the spacing together, so a table squeezed to 70% has text noticeably smaller than footnotes. A size step (\small), tighter \tabcolsep or a wrapping column usually reads better. The fit list shows the resulting type size before you choose.

Close, but it is an estimate from the preview, not a TeX run. In November 2026, 201 tables were compiled with pdfLaTeX (TeX Live 2026): the example tables in article, IEEEtran and acmart, plus extreme ones such as heavy math at every type size, regression tables with stars and standard errors, integrals and calligraphic letters in acmart, 20 columns, siunitx numbers with exponents or ± uncertainties in each class, bold numbers, two-row headers, symbols such as × and ±, and initials and sentence breaks in IEEEtran's Times. The LaTeX table generator's preview was within 1% on 178 of them and within 3.5% on all, and never more than 1.9% too narrow, so the status warns “Only …pt to spare” when less than 3% of the line is left. acmart sets math in its own Libertine math font, which the preview matches glyph by glyph from measured widths; for a symbol it hasn't measured it can be further off, so acmart tables with math that fit get the “Only …pt to spare” warning from 6%. A table shown more than 3.5% too wide overflows: no table in the test read that far wide. The check also follows each class's table settings, such as IEEEtran's 8pt float type and acmart's 5pt column spacing, and the wider fonts TeX uses at small sizes.

Yes. Choose longtable under Environment in the LaTeX table generator. The code repeats the header at the top of every page, adds a “Continued on next page” line at page breaks, and keeps the caption and label. The preview marks roughly where pages break for the chosen document class.

It is TeX's own warning that a line is wider than the space for it; for a table, the tabular is wider than \columnwidth and sticks into the margin. With tabularx the table stays at the line width, and the warning comes from a cell whose word is too long for its column, so the word sticks into the next one. The proof shows it before you compile, with the overflow in points and fixes measured against the chosen document class.

Generate each one with No float as the environment, then place both tabulars inside one table, each in a minipage of about 0.48\linewidth, or use the subcaption package for separate (a) and (b) captions. Check each half's width with the fit check first.

Yes. Many university templates use 1-inch margins; if yours does, choose article + 1in margins in the fit check for a close width, and use the full document only as a test file.

Yes. Choose No float under Environment to get a bare tabular (Beamer frames don't need a floating table), or keep table if you want a caption. A smaller type size such as \small often suits slides.

Yes, it is free and there is nothing to sign up for. The LaTeX table generator runs in your browser: the cells you type, paste or import are turned into code on your own device and are not uploaded, unless you press Open in Overleaf, which sends the document to Overleaf.

No. The LaTeX table generator works from text: reading a table from an image needs an OCR or vision model, and the result can't be checked against your data. If the table is in a PDF you can select, copy the text into a spreadsheet first; then paste it here.

No, it writes LaTeX only. It reads Markdown tables, so you can bring one in and get LaTeX out, but for the reverse direction a general table converter is the better tool.

No. It follows fixed rules from the LaTeX, booktabs and siunitx documentation, so the same table always gives the same code, and nothing you type is sent to a language model.

Yes. In the same tab, the table and its settings are kept in session storage, so a reload or an accidental back-and-forward doesn't lose them. A copy of your last table also stays in this browser's local storage (latex-table-generator:last), with your paper and style choices (latex-table-generator:prefs): a later visit to the LaTeX table generator starts with those choices and offers "Restore it" for the table. Nothing is stored on a server, and clearing this site's data removes both.

Yes. The code made from your data is yours to use in papers, theses, books and slides, commercial or not, with no credit needed.

It works in any current browser, including on phones and tablets, though a large table is easier to edit on a wider screen. Once the page has loaded, building tables needs no connection; only Open in Overleaf, feedback and analytics use the network.

No. It writes the classic tabular family (tabular, tabularx, longtable, and xltabular for a long table that fills the line) with booktabs, multirow and siunitx, which every LaTeX distribution and journal template accepts. Code using tabularray's tblr can be imported for its cell contents.