9.53.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

9.53.2.1 How to vertically-center the text of the cells?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=7208

I have a simple table as follows: 
\begin{table*} 
\centering 
\begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|c|c|p{2in}|} 
... 
... 
\end{tabular} 
\caption{The factors the camera solver depends on to ... 
[tables] [vertical-alignment]
 

asked by Rafid https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2418 Score of 188

answered by Second Person Shooter https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2099 Score of 48

9.53.2.2 TeXnicCenter & Adobe Reader DC

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=250472

How to configure TeXnicCenter to work with Adobe Reader DC? When I building and view current file .tex the following error "Can not execute the command" shows up and the PDF is not generated. 
If ... 
[pdf] [texniccenter] [adobe]
 

asked by Walter Silva https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=80192 Score of 63

answered by JiAo\231A~\[DiscretionaryHyphen] ChmelA~\[DiscretionaryHyphen]k https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=82051 Score of 85

9.53.2.3 How to change certain pages into landscape/portrait mode

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=337

How can I change the orientation of some pages of my document into landscape mode, while leaving the others in portrait mode (or vice versa)? 
[landscape]
 

asked by hayalci https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=183 Score of 432

answered by rcs https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=118 Score of 450

9.53.2.4 Tabular: title above and caption below?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=15282

I have a table that I would like to put the Title above and a caption below. Intuitively (though I know how troublesome intuition can be in something like LaTeX), I should be able to do as below: 
\... 
[tables] [captions]
 

asked by Alec https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2457 Score of 76

answered by Alan Munn https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2693 Score of 53

9.53.2.5 Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2275

Is there any package or a method to force LaTeX to keep floating environments like table and figure closer to where they are declared? 
[floats] [positioning]
 

asked by artimess https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=833 Score of 387

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 Score of 388

9.53.2.6 How to typeset subscript in usual text mode?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=1013

It's easy to make subscripts in math mode: $a_i$. 
How do I make a subscript outside math environment, likethis? 
[subscripts]
 

asked by P Shved https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=280 Score of 313

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 Score of 206

9.53.2.7 Column and row padding in tables

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=31672

How do you guys go about controlling column padding in tables? 
Update 
To clarify, I'm looking for a way to control both vertical and horizontal padding. So, if I had a simple table like in the ... 
[tables] [spacing] [columns]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by JustDanyul https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8615 Score of 447

answered by Werner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5764 Score of 358