How to focus the contents of a cell in a LaTeX table whose columns have a fixed width?

Question

Consider the following code snippet LaTeX:

\begin{tabular}{p{1in}p{1in}} A & B\\ C & D\\ \end{tabular} 

How can I make the contents of each cell aligned in the center of the cell, rather than left? Note that I want to make sure the width of my columns is fixed, so I cannot use the position attribute "c" instead of "p {.1in}" to center the contents of my cell.

Answer 1

\usepackage{array} in the preamble

that is:

 \begin{tabular}{| >{\centering\arraybackslash}m{1in} | >{\centering\arraybackslash}m{1in} |} 

note that the “m” for the fixed column is provided by the array package and will give you vertical centering (unless you want it to just go back to “p”

Answer 2

You can use \centering with your password for this.

More details here and here .

(Sorry for the Google cache link, the original I had doesn't work anymore.)