Text Alignment Within Cells

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Hey guys. I'm printing out reports that require a lot of information to be squeezed on to one page. The result is very narrow rows of information. Because these have to be read by all sorts of people, the text needs to be as large as possible within these rows.

I've run across an issue where there seems to be some sort of default padding along the top of the cell which forces the text down far enough to cause me some serious headaches considering how narrow the rows are. I've already tried setting the padding to 0, but this does not solve the problem. Does anyone have any tips, or is this something I can not avoid?

I would like to make the font larger, as the rows have room, but all that happens is the text gets cut off at the bottom, rather than being properly centered. Refer to the attached photo to see what I mean.

Thanks guys!