11.4.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

11.4.2.1 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 479

answered by Werner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5764 Score of 375

11.4.2.2 How to typeset the symbol '^' (caret/circumflex/hat)

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=77646

I need to display the symbol '^' 
d <- dist(fascores, method = "euclidean")^2 
How do I do that? 
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11.4.2.3 How to vertically-center the text of the cells?

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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]
 

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answered by Display Name https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2099 Score of 51

11.4.2.4 How to prevent LaTeX from hyphenating the entire document?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=5036

I can't find where I can remove any kind of hyphenation and just have LaTeX just do a line break. 
edit: 
Honestly speaking I just don't like to read hyphenation anywhere and that's the only reason why ... 
[hyphenation]
 

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answered by Joseph Wright https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=73 Score of 223

11.4.2.5 How do I put text over symbols?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=74125

This is difficult for me to explain, but how do I put words over a symbol? For instance, I want to add words over an equal sign. Anyone know the command/syntax for that? 
Also adding ^ doesn't cut it..... 
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answered by Gonzalo Medina https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3954 Score of 130

11.4.2.6 Matrix in Latex

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I am new to Latex, and I have been trying to get the matrix of following form 
[x11 x12 x13 . . . . x1n 
x21 x22 x23 . . . . x2n 
. 
. 
. 
. 
xd1 xd2 xd3 . . . . xdn] 
... 
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asked by Lakshmi Narayanan https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=63361 Score of 150

answered by skpblack https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=42912 Score of 220

11.4.2.7 How to change certain pages into landscape/portrait mode

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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]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

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