How can I achieve the table layout shown in the image below using the Lyx editor please?
I would like to have the first and last column contents vertically aligned to the top while the 3rd and 4th column contents should be vertically aligned to the middle.
I read something about changing the cells to multicolumn but it seems that the vertical alignment settings of the cell containing the most text overrides all the other cells in the same row.
Thanks in advance for your help
UPDATE: Below is the sample table code. All cells are vertically middle aligned.
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Sample Table
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<column alignment="left" valignment="middle" width="7cm">
<column alignment="center" valignment="middle" width="2cm">
<column alignment="center" valignment="middle" width="1.2cm">
<column alignment="center" valignment="middle" width="2.5cm">
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Title 1
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\end_layout
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\begin_inset Text
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\series bold
Title 2
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\begin_inset Text
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\series bold
Title 3
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\begin_inset Text
\begin_layout Plain Layout
\series bold
Title 4
\end_layout
\end_inset
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1
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Curabitur egestas faucibus purus.
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1
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6
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Lorem Ipsum
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Lorem Ipsum
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3
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Vivamus quis lobortis lectus.
Curabitur egestas faucibus purus.
Proin sem risus, imperdiet ac imperdiet eget, elementum a libero.
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Lorem Ipsum
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Best Answer
Just now I managed to do it thanks to the tips at LyX wiki | Lyx / Tables
Basically you set the vertical alignment of the row cell with the most text to the default one you want (in my case it was middle and the cell had 5 lines). Then, if you have, for example, the number 1 in a cell to be vertically aligned at the top, you:
So now you have 3 lines in total in that cell (3 is the center line when you have another cell with 5 lines)
Finally, you set the vertical alignment to the opposite of what you want. Therefore I wanted the 1 to go to the top so I set the vertical alignment to bottom.
Hope this helps someone.