[Tex/LaTex] How to center text vertically in a table cell

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I designed this table for my presentation, but in some cells the text is aligned at the top and ooks bad.
I want the text to be centered vertically but I do not know how.
Thanks for the help.

MY code

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}  %%para que salga la tilde en el idioma español
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Drogas antituberculosas.}

\begin{tabular}{|p{3cm}|p{3cm}|p{6cm}|}
\hline
% after \\: \hline or \cline{col1-col2} \cline{col3-col4} ...
Tipo & Grupo & Fármacos \\
\hline
 Primera Línea & Grupo 1: Agentes de primera línea & Isoniacida (H), rifampicina (R), etambutol (E), pirazinamida (Z), estreptomicina (S). \\
 \hline
\multirow{4}{*}{Segunda Línea} & Grupo 2: Agentes inyectables & Kanamicina (Km), amikacina (Am), capreomicina (Cm). \\
\cline{2-3}
& Grupo 3:Fluoroquinolonas & levofloxacina (Lfx), moxifloxacina (Mfx) \\
\cline{2-3}
& Grupo 4: Agentes bacteriostáticos orales & etionamida (Eto), cicloserina (Cs), ácido para-amino salicílico (PAS) \\
\cline{2-3}
 & Grupo 5: Agentes con evidencia limitada & clofazimina (Cfz), linezolid (Lzd), amoxicilina/ clavulánico(Amx/Clv), meropenem (Mpm),imipenem/ cilastatina (Ipm/Cln), dosis altas de isoniacida, claritromicina (Clr), tioridazina (Tio) \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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aligned to the top looks bad? hm, matter of personal taste :)

please compare tables generated by the following mwe:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}  %%para que salga la tilde en el idioma español
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage{ragged2e}
\usepackage{array, multirow}    % for the first table
\usepackage{booktabs,tabularx}  % for the second table
\newcolumntype{R}{>{\RaggedRight}X}

\begin{document}
    \begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\caption{Drogas antituberculosas. (according to your taste)}
    \begin{tabular}{|m{3cm}|m{3cm}|>{\RaggedRight}m{6.3cm}|}
\hline
% after \\: \hline or \cline{col1-col2} \cline{col3-col4} ...
Tipo            & Grupo     & Fármacos \\
    \hline
Primera Línea   & Grupo 1: Agentes de primera línea & Isoniacida (H), rifampicina (R), etambutol (E), pirazinamida (Z), estreptomicina (S). \\
    \hline
\multirow{12}{*}{Segunda Línea}
                & Grupo 2: Agentes inyectables & Kanamicina (Km), amikacina (Am), capreomicina (Cm). \\
\cline{2-3}
& Grupo 3:Fluoroquinolonas & levofloxacina (Lfx), moxifloxacina (Mfx) \\
\cline{2-3}
& Grupo 4: Agentes bacteriostáticos orales & etionamida (Eto), cicloserina (Cs), ácido para-amino salicílico (PAS) \\
\cline{2-3}
 & Grupo 5: Agentes con evidencia limitada & clofazimina (Cfz), linezolid (Lzd), amoxicilina/ clavulánico(Amx/Clv), meropenem (Mpm),imipenem/ cilastatina (Ipm/Cln), dosis altas de isoniacida, claritromicina (Clr), tioridazina (Tio) \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
    \end{table}


    \begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\caption{Drogas antituberculosas. (according to my taste)}
    \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{} c >{\hsize=0.65\hsize}R >{\hsize=1.35\hsize}R @{}}
    \toprule
Tipo            & Grupo     & Fármacos \\
    \midrule
Primera Línea   & Grupo 1: Agentes de primera línea
                            & Isoniacida (H), rifampicina (R), etambutol (E), pirazinamida (Z), estreptomicina (S). \\
    \midrule
Segunda Línea   & Grupo 2: Agentes inyectables
                            & Kanamicina (Km), amikacina (Am), capreomicina (Cm). \\
    \addlinespace
                & Grupo 3:Fluoroquinolonas
                            & levofloxacina (Lfx), moxifloxacina (Mfx) \\
    \addlinespace
                & Grupo 4: Agentes bacteriostáticos orales
                            & etionamida (Eto), cicloserina (Cs), ácido para-amino salicílico (PAS) \\
    \addlinespace
            & Grupo 5: Agentes con evidencia limitada
                            & clofazimina (Cfz), linezolid (Lzd), amoxicilina/ clavulánico(Amx/Clv), meropenem (Mpm),imipenem/ cilastatina (Ipm/Cln), dosis altas de isoniacida, claritromicina (Clr), tioridazina (Tio) \\
    \bottomrule
\end{tabularx}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

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You can do it manually, using \raisebox, or you can use the \multirow command from the homonymous package (although, as egreg has mentioned in a comment, it's better not to shift the heading):

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{booktabs} %for top, middle and bottomline
\usepackage{multirow} %multi column and row spanning
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{multicol}

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Gram stain & $-$ & $-$\\
Oxidase & $+$ & $-$\\
Catalase & $+$ & $-$\\
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Anaerobic & Growth (weak) & No growth\\
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Indole production & & \\
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\end{multicols}

\end{document}

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You can use the m option provided by the array package to vertically centre the material in table columns. However, you have another problem. Using \\ without a preceding ampersand creates a row with only one column. This is why part of the right edge of the table is missing. Instead, you could use \par to insert a line break without moving to the next line of the table.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|m{5.5cm}|m{12cm}|}
\hline
\large\textbf{Redirection} & \large\textbf{Description} \\
\hline
\verb|> file| & Redirect standard output (stdout) to a file. \\
\hline
\verb|1> file| & Same as \verb|> file|. \verb|1| is the default file descriptor for stdout. \\
\hline
\verb|2> file| & Redirect standard error (stderr) to a file. \verb|2| is the default file descriptor for stderr. \\
\hline
\verb|>> file| & Append stdout to a file. \\
\hline
\verb|2>> file| & Append stderr to a file. \\
\hline
\verb|&> file| & Redirect stdout and stderr to a file. \\
\hline
\verb|>file 2>&1| & Another way to redirect both stdout and stderr to a file. This \textbf{is not} the same as \verb|2>&1 >file|. \textbf{Redirection order matters!} \\
\hline
\verb|> /dev/null| & Discard stdout. \\
\hline
\verb|2> /dev/null| & Discard stderr. \\
\hline
\verb|&> /dev/null| & Discard stdout and stderr. \\
\hline
\verb|< file| & Redirect the contents of the file to the stdin. \\
\hline
\verb+<< EOL+\par
\verb+foo+\par
\verb+bar+\par
\verb+baz+\par
\verb+EOL+
 & Redirect a bunch of lines to the stdin. \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

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