I have a table that has a 11 columns. I have one word in the top column with a subscript that seems to be going out of its box. is there any way to fix it?
i tried to use \tiny with the subscript, use tabularx and supertabular environments but nothing seems to be working yet. it still spills out of the cell.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\begin{scriptsize}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{p{1.5cm}p{1cm}p{1cm}p{1cm}p{1cm}p{1cm}p{1cm}p{1cm}p{1cm}p{1cm}p{1cm}}
\hline
&
(1)& (2)& (3)& (4)& (5)& (6)& (7)& (8)& (9)& (10) \\
\hline
&
\multicolumn{5}{|p{222pt}|}{\textbf{Historical stock market development from 1913 to 1960 [col. (1) to (5)]}} &
\multicolumn{5}{|p{220pt}|}{\textbf{Recent stock market development from 1991 to 2007 [col. (6) to (10)]}} \\
\hline
Dep. Var. $=$ stock market capitalization to GDP (\textit{MCY})&
Dep. Var. $= \quad \Delta $\textit{MCY}$_{1913-1960}$;$_{\, }\Delta $\textit{State} is from 51-1900 &
Dep. Var. $= \quad \Delta $\textit{MCY}$_{1913-\, 1960}$;$_{\, }\Delta $\textit{State} is from 501-1900 &
Dep. Var. $= \quad \Delta $\textit{MCY}$_{1913-\, 1960}$;$_{\, }\Delta $\textit{State} is from 1001-1900 &
Dep. Var. $= \quad \Delta $\textit{MCY}$_{1913-\, 1960}$;$_{\, }\Delta $\textit{State} is from 1501-1900 &
Dep. Var. $= \quad \Delta $\textit{MCY}$_{1913-\, 1960}$;$_{\, }\Delta $\textit{State} is from 1851-1900 &
Dep. Var. $= \quad \Delta $\textit{MCY}$_{1991-2007}$;$_{\, }\Delta $\textit{State} is from 51-1950&
Dep. Var. $= \quad \Delta $\textit{MCY}$_{1991-2007}$;$_{\, }\Delta $\textit{State} is from 501-1950&
Dep. Var. $= \quad \Delta $\textit{MCY}$_{1991-2007}$;$_{\, }\Delta $\textit{State} is from 1001-1950&
Dep. Var. $= \quad \Delta $\textit{MCY}$_{1991-2007}$;$_{\, }\Delta $\textit{State} is from 1501-1950&
Dep. Var. $= \quad \Delta $\textit{MCY}$_{1991-2007}$;$_{\, }\Delta $\textit{State} is from 1901-1950 \\
\hline
$\Delta $\textit{State}&
-0.223 \newline
(-0.125)&
3.178 \newline
(1.456)&
5.650 \newline
(1.656)& & & & & & & &
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{tab1}
\end{center}
\end{scriptsize}
\end{table}
\end{document}
\documentclass{...}
and preamble relating to your table.threeparttable
can help you in this. Sorry, but table as is in present form is not readable at all.