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From: halvers@gecrux.crd.ge.com (Pete Halverson)
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Subject: Re: Need some help
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Date: 21 Aug 90 20:23:34 GMT
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In article <1990Aug21.173901.11917@cs.umn.edu> Andrew Lim writes:
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- I need to make my paper into a 2 column format. Unfortunately, the
- figures and tables seems to be too big to fit into one column. What 
- should I do? Is there a way to reduce the size of the table/figure
- by alot? Is it possible to fit the table/figure into 2 columns?

In two-column format, saying "\begin{figure*} ... \end{figure*}" produces
a figure which spans both columns.  "\begin{table*}" works similarly.

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