LaTeX Table Generator

Typing a LaTeX table by hand means counting ampersands, ending every row with \\ and escaping every % or _ that would otherwise break the build. Paste CSV or cells copied from Excel or Google Sheets and get ready-to-compile tabular, tabularx or longtable code with professional booktabs rules, a caption and a label for \ref. Special characters are escaped correctly, so a cell like 50% & $5 prints exactly as written.

How to use this tool

1. Paste your data, with the header in the first row.
2. Choose tabular, tabularx (fills the text width) or longtable (breaks across pages).
3. Pick booktabs rules, simple \hline lines or a full grid.
4. Optionally set the column alignment, caption and label.
5. Copy the code and add the packages listed under it to your preamble.

Formula

cell & cell & cell \\ · \begin{tabular}{lrr} … \end{tabular}

The column spec has one letter per column: l, c or r align left, centre or right; p{4cm} wraps text in a fixed width; X (tabularx only) shares the free width. By default numeric columns are right-aligned and text left-aligned. The ten special characters are escaped as \& \% \$ \# \_ \{ \} and \textasciitilde{} \textasciicircum{} \textbackslash{}.

Example

The sample fruit list (3 columns, 3 rows) becomes a table float with \centering, \caption{Fruit prices} and \label{tab:fruit} around \begin{tabular}{lrr}: Fruit is text so it gets l, Qty and Price are numbers so they get r. \toprule, \midrule and \bottomrule frame the bold header and the rows Apple & 3 & 1.20 \\ and so on. Add \usepackage{booktabs} to the preamble.