Different sizes of font available in table?

Question

I have a table and it appears I only have two options when it comes to font size: large and small. There should be a medium option, correct? I get an error when I replace small or large with medium.

The beginning of my table looks like this:

\begin{table*}[ht]
{\small
\hfill{}
\small
\begin{tabular}{|p{3.5cm}|p{8cm}|p{5cm}|}

How do I get a universal font size for the table that is not huge or too small to read?

Answer 1

There's no \medium font size; between \small and \large you have \normalsize (which is the default font size). The standard font size switches are: \tiny, \scriptsize, \footnotesize, \small, \normalsize, \large, \Large, \LARGE, \huge, and \Huge.

By the way, you only need one font switch command inside table and braces are not required since table forms a group, so you can simple say something like

\begin{table}
\small
\begin{tabular}{p{3.5cm}p{8cm}p{5cm}}
text & text & text
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

Answer 2

If you need to fine tune the size of a table, you can include it in a scaleboxfrom the graphicx or graphics-package and scale the table to fit. If you need more options, you can use the adjustbox-package.