Table in Latex Overlapping with Second Column of the Page

I got a problem with tables in LaTeX. I am using a pre-defined format from a conference, which makes a page consists of two columns. My table is too wide to be contained in one column, so it goes to the second 开发者_Go百科column of the page and overlaps with text!

1. Why is LaTeX allowing this?
2. Is it possible in the current format, to make the table a block, so that it uses two columns, and the text in the other column dragged down a bit?
3. Any other suggestion?

This is my code:

\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
Rule & Factor & Best Value & Delta_t & Delta_{do} & Comments \\
\hline
\multirow{3}{c}{Diagonal Dominance} & Line Angle & 45 & 15 & 30 & The angle between the prominent line of the object and
the diagonal lines \\ % TODO: What object? Make sure it is clear.
                                    & Line Distance & 0 & 0.25 & 1 & The distance, in screen coordinates, from the
prominent line of the object to the diagonal lines. \\ % TODO: Need to define screen coordinates
                                    & Corner Distances & 0 & 0.1 & 0.7 & The distance, in screen coordinates, from the
end of the prominent line of the object to the corners of the screen. \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{The factors of each rule and their parameters.}
\label{table:factors}
\end{table}

Thank you in advance for your help.

Regards,

Rafid

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Generally, the starred version of floating environments are used to tell LaTeX to span two columns. So, something like:

\begin{table*}
% Table contents
\end{table*}

The same can be done with figures.

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In place of tabular, use tabularx, for example:

\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|c|c|c|c|c|X|}

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Sorry, @Rafid, I normally use memoir, which includes it, so I forgot this bit:

\usepackage{tabularx}