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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: resize org-table when exporting to latex
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 21:56:33 -0500
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Jeremie Juste <jeremiejuste@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to resize latex table when exporting to latex?
> For now my only recourse is to export the latex table copy the latex
> code back to org-mode apply \scalebox.
>
> Do you have a more convenient way in mind?
>

You need to use tabularx - something like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{tabularx}

* Export a table

#+CAPTION: foo
#+NAME: bar
#+ATTR_LATEX: :environment tabularx :width .8\textwidth :align X|X|X|X
| a | b | c | d | 
|---+---+---+---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

-- 
Nick