# Problems Compiling Large Tables

**URL:** <https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/problems-compiling-large-tables/50941>\
**Category:** Scrivener for macOS\
**Tags:** support\
**Created:** [August 1, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/problems-compiling-large-tables/50941 "2020-08-01T01:16:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Roger2](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Roger2](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Roger2)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/problems-compiling-large-tables/50941/1 "2020-08-01T01:16:31Z")

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Hi, as you can see in the title, I can’t compile the tables in my project as I would like.  
I’m working with many tables, and a great part of them are larger than the page’s height. They get cut off, and don’t show complete.

Does anyone have any suggestions?  
Is it even possible that I can do something about it?  
Should I just replace the tables with images?

Any help is welcomed, thanks in advance!

Editor

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**Author:** ![rms](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rms](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/rms)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/problems-compiling-large-tables/50941/2 "2020-08-01T12:30:10Z")

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Tables are really complicated for most tools, especially text-orientated ones. I’ve never been able to bend any tool to my will to do what I expect. Perhaps possible, but always consumed a lot of time at the expense of doing the table or writing the text. Big time waster.

I found best success doing tables in a spreadsheet (in Excel, Numbers, or even PowerPoint) file which I kept in the Scrivener Research folder, and then put screen shots (PNG format) into the document … then can more easily control the tables’s height and width in the document.