# PrettyTables: Is there a way to show multiple tables when the table is very wide?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/prettytables-is-there-a-way-to-show-multiple-tables-when-the-table-is-very-wide/58846
**Category:** Data
**Tags:** tables
**Created:** [April 8, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/prettytables-is-there-a-way-to-show-multiple-tables-when-the-table-is-very-wide/58846 "2021-04-08T15:42:03Z")
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### Author: ![pdeffebach](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pdeffebach/32/10320_2.png) [@pdeffebach](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pdeffebach)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/prettytables-is-there-a-way-to-show-multiple-tables-when-the-table-is-very-wide/58846/1 "2021-04-08T15:42:03Z")

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I feel like I’ve seen an example somewhere where, when printing with `pretty_table`, if a table is too wide for the terminal, it prints multiple tables until everything is printed.

Is that a thing? Or is that a feature I was imagining.

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### Author: ![rafael.guerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rafael.guerra/32/216610_2.png) [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/prettytables-is-there-a-way-to-show-multiple-tables-when-the-table-is-very-wide/58846/2 "2021-04-08T17:49:40Z")

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It sounds like this [post](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/configure-dataframe-show/51593/5).