\newline (LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (November 2018))

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### 9.3 `\newline`

In ordinary text, this ends a line in a way that does not right-justify the line, so the prior text is not stretched. That is, in paragraph mode (see Modes), the `\newline` command is equivalent to double-backslash (see \\). This command is fragile (see \protect).

However, the two commands are different inside a `tabular` or `array` environment. In a column with a specifier producing a paragraph box such as typically `p{...}`, `\newline` will insert a line end inside of the column; that is, it does not break the entire tabular row. To break the entire row use `\\` or its equivalent `\tabularnewline`.

This will print ‘`Name:`’ and ‘`Address:`’ as two lines in a single cell of the table.

    \begin{tabular}{p{1in}{\hspace{2in}}p{1in}}
      Name: \newline Address: &Date: \\ \hline
    \end{tabular}

The ‘`Date:`’ will be baseline-aligned with ‘`Name:`’.

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