How to code tables with multi-line cells

Question

I am trying to write a short paper with LaTeX and need to add a table with 3 columns.

+-------------+-----------------+--------------------------------------+ | AAAAAAAAAA  | BBBBBBBBBBBBBBB | Betty Botter Bought a Bit of Butter  | |             |                 | but the Butter's Bitter              | +-------------+-----------------+--------------------------------------+ | CCCCCCCC    | DDDD            | Betty Botter Thought:                | |             |                 | If I Put This Bitter Butter in My    | |             |                 | Batter it Will Make My Batter Bitter | +-------------+-----------------+--------------------------------------+ 

Unfortunately I can't seem to find the correct idiom to do it.

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I tried:

\begin{tabular}{lll}      AAAAAAAAAA  & BBBBBBBBBBBBBBB & Betty Botter Bought a Bit of Butter but      the Butter's Bitter  \\     CCCCCCCC  & DDDD & Betty Botter Thought: \newline If I Put This Bitter Butter in My Batter it Will Make My Batter Bitter  \end{tabular} 

But LaTeX doesn't do any linebreaks or formatting within the cell. I assume I need to tell it to do so.. But how?

Answer 1

Use the p column descriptor:

Change

\begin{tabular}{lll}  

to

\begin{tabular}{llp{5cm}} 

To explicitly insert line-breaks:

CCCCCCCC  & DDDD & \parbox{5cm}{Betty Botter Thought: \\ If I Put This Bitter Butter in My Batter it Will Make My Batter Bitter}