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In the following code , describing a table. The second horizintal line, appears to smudge with line of text.

How can I correct that?

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The question is, then: how do i increase the line spacing between the line and the text?

 \resheading{\textbf{ACADEMIC DETAILS} }\\[\lsep]
\vspace{5mm} \vfill
%\begin{table}[ht!]
%\begin{center}
\indent \begin{tabular}{ l @{\hskip 0.15in} l @{\hskip 0.20in} l @{\hskip 0.20in} l @{\hskip 0.20in} l }
\hline
\vspace{0.1mm}
\textbf{Year} &\textbf{Degree} & \textbf{Institute}   & \textbf{CGPA/\%} \\
\hline
2015- Present&B.Tech Electrical and Electronics Engineering & VIT Vellore  & 9.69 CGPA \\

2015 & 12th CBSE Board Examination & Kendriya Vidyalaya & 94.8\%\\

2013 & 10th CBSE Board Examination & Kendriya Vidyalaya & 10 CGPA\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
%\end{center}
%\end{table}
\vspace{2mm}

%\resheading{\textbf
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    Please make your code compilable (if possible), or at least complete it with \documentclass{...}, the required \usepackage's, \begin{document}, and \end{document}. That may seem tedious to you, but think of the extra work it represents for TeX.SX users willing to give you a hand. Help them help you: remove that one hurdle between you and a solution to your problem.
    – Moriambar
    Apr 15, 2017 at 19:37
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    And rework your table using booktabs. It provides nicer rules for exactly this problem.
    – Alan Munn
    Apr 15, 2017 at 19:43

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Another solution consists in defining a minimal vertical padding at the top and bottom of cells with the cellspace package:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[top=0.75in, bottom=0.75in, left=0.55in, right=0.85in]{geometry}

\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{cellspace}
\setlength\cellspacetoplimit{4pt}
\setlength\cellspacebottomlimit{4pt}

\begin{document}

\centering
    \begin{tabular}{@{}*{4}{Sl}@{}}
        \toprule
        \textbf{Year} &\textbf{Degree} & \textbf{Institute} & \textbf{CGPA/\%}\\
        \midrule
        2015 -- present & B.Tech Electrical and Electronics Engineering & VIT Vellore & 9.69 CGPA\\
        2015 & 12th CBSE Board Examination & Kendriya Vidyalaya & 94.8\%\\
        2013 & 10th CBSE Board Examination & Kendriya Vidyalaya & 10 CGPA\\
        \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}

\end{document}

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As Alan Munn also suggested in his comment: Don't worry and let booktabs take care of your problem:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[top=0.75in, bottom=0.75in, left=0.55in, right=0.85in]{geometry}

\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\begin{document}

    \begin{tabularx}{\dimexpr\linewidth-15pt}{@{}lXll@{}}
        \toprule
        \textbf{Year} &\textbf{Degree} & \textbf{Institute} & \textbf{CGPA/\%}\\
        \midrule
        2015 -- present & B.Tech Electrical and Electronics Engineering & VIT Vellore & 9.69 CGPA\\
        2015 & 12th CBSE Board Examination & Kendriya Vidyalaya & 94.8\%\\
        2013 & 10th CBSE Board Examination & Kendriya Vidyalaya & 10 CGPA\\
        \bottomrule
    \end{tabularx}

\end{document}

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  • This doesn't solve the problem of row spacing when there's no rule.
    – Bernard
    Apr 15, 2017 at 22:38
  • @Bernard No it does not -- but I saw no hints in the question, that the spacing between the rows should be changed.
    – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz
    Apr 15, 2017 at 23:01
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As suggested in Alan Munn in his comment, rules from booktabs package gives more vertical space around cells contents. Beside this the \arraystretch is increase and removed surplus manual spacing between columns.

{\renewcommand\arraystretch{1.2}
\begin{tabular}{ l l l l l }
\midrule
\textbf{Year} 
     & \textbf{Degree}  & \textbf{Institute}   & \textbf{CGPA/\%}   \\
\midrule
2015- Present
     & B.Tech Electrical and Electronics Engineering  
                        & VIT Vellore           & 9.69 CGPA         \\

2015 & 12th CBSE Board Examination 
                        & Kendriya Vidyalaya    & 94.8\%            \\

2013 & 10th CBSE Board Examination 
                        & Kendriya Vidyalaya    & 10 CGPA           \\
\midrule
\end{tabular}
}
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