Horizontal page for largeTables

Question

I am new to LaTeX, I am writing a thesis, in which I have to add a table, the width of table is larger than text width and length can be fit in vertically. In order to fit the width of table, what is good idea to add table on horizontal page OR add it vertically without limitation of text width?

In order to add horizontally how I can do it? Response will be matter a lot.

Thanks

Answer 1

If it is OK for you to have one page rotated as a landscape where to have only the table, try the lscape package:

\usepackage{lscape} 
...
\begin{document}

Text that will end up in portrait (normal) mode

\begin{landscape}
[insert table here that will be displayed horizontally]
\end{landscape}

Rest of the text here, again in portrait mode

See also this question: How to change certain pages into landscape/portrait mode

Answer 2

For one table (or figure) in landscape orientation you can use \begin{sidewaystable} ... \end{sidewaystable} (or \begin{sidewaysfigure} ... \end{sidewaysfigure}) from package rotating. For example:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[labelfont=bf]{caption} % optional

\usepackage{ragged2e}
\usepackage{lipsum}% for dummy text

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\textbf{Here is inserted \texttt+sidewaystable+}.
\begin{sidewaystable}
    \centering
\caption{Wide table}
    \label{tab:wide-item-tbl}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|*{4}{>{\RaggedRight\arraybackslash}X|}}
    \hline
\lipsum[1]  &   \lipsum[2]  &   \lipsum[3]  &   \lipsum[4]  \\
    \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{sidewaystable}
\lipsum[2-9]
\end{document}

Table will appear on the next page.