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I am new to latex and cannot solve to fit this table to page size even though I looked up the problem in the forum. Any help would be very much appreciated.

    documentclass[11pt]{article}

    usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

    usepackage[scaled]{helvet}

    usepackage[table]{xcolor}   

    renewcommandfamilydefault{sfdefault} 

    usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

    thispagestyle{empty}

    usepackage[margin=0.7in]{geometry}

    begin{document}

    rowcolors{2}{gray!25}{white} % for alt row cols

    begin{table}[ht]

    centering

    makebox[linewidth]{

    begin{tabular}{lllllll}

    rowcolor{gray!50} %for alt row cols

      hline

       & Overall & None (N) & Mild (M) & Moderate (M) & Severe (S) \ 

    & Mean% (SE) (95% CI)&Mean% (SE) (95% CI)& Mean% (SE) (95%         CI)&Mean% (SE) (95% CI) & Mean% (SE) (95% CI) \

      hline

    textbf{XXXXXX}& 65 (61 - 69) & 20 (17 - 23)& 8 (6 - 10) & 7 (5 - 9) & \

    textbf{XXXXXXX} (XXXX-XXX)&  42 (34 - 51) & 23 (15 - 30) & 17 (10 - 24) & 18 (11 - 25) & \ 

    textbf{XXXXXXX} (XXXX-XXXX)& 62 (53 - 70) & 19 (11 - 26) & 8 (3 - 12) & 12 (6 - 17) & \

    textbf{XXXXXX}& 73 (63 - 84) & 18 (8 - 28) & 5 (1 - 9) & 4 (-1 - 9) & \ 

       hline

    end{tabular}

}

      end{table}



     end{document}

I suggest you switch from tabular to tabularx and allow line breaks in each of the five data column header cells.

documentclass[11pt]{article}

usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage[T1]{fontenc}usepackage[scaled]{helvet}

usepackage[table]{xcolor}   

renewcommandfamilydefault{sfdefault} 

usepackage{tabularx,ragged2e}

newcolumntype{C}{>{Centeringarraybackslash}X}



begin{document}

begin{table}[ht]

rowcolors{2}{gray!25}{white} % for alt row cols

setlengthextrarowheight{2pt}

setlengthtabcolsep{3pt} % default 6pt

begin{tabularx}{textwidth}{l *{5}{C}}

hline

rowcolor{gray!50} % for this row only

& Overall & None (N) & Mild (M) & Moderate (M) & Severe (S) \ 

& Mean% (SE) (95%~CI)&Mean% (SE) (95%~CI)& Mean% (SE) (95%~CI)&Mean% (SE) (95%~CI) & Mean% (SE) (95%~CI) \

%hline

textbf{XXXXXX}& 65 (61--69) & 20 (17--23)& 8 (6--10) & 7 (5--9) & \

textbf{XXXXXXX} (XXXX-XXX)&  42 (34--51) & 23 (15--30) & 17 (10--24) & 18 (11--25) & \ 

textbf{XXXXXXX} (XXXX-XXXX)& 62 (53--70) & 19 (11--26) & 8 (3--12) & 12 (6--17) & \

textbf{XXXXXX}& 73 (63--84) & 18 (8--28) & 5 (1--9) & 4 ($-$1--9) & \ 

hline

end{tabularx}

end{table}

end{document}

There are two parts to this:

1) How do I force LaTeX to put my table on its own page?

2) How do I make the table fill the page?

For the first, drop the {table} environment. For years, I struggled with my tables and figures going where I wanted them to until I realized that those environments were just about float placement and indexing, and weren't necessary for either a {tabular} or an includegraphics. If you put down a {tabular} environment with all of your desired data and clearpage before and after it, you'll get the table on its own page right in the spot in the text that you want it.

For the second question, you can set your column widths to be whatever you want, and experiment with what looks right for your columns.

For making a page-sized table that will float, I recommend creating a minibox with the same size as your page size (or the size of your page minus margins).

begin{tabular}[ht]

begin{minipage}{textwidth}

begin{tabular}...