[Tex/LaTex] Vertical centred alignment of text in table cell

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I would like to know how to put vertical centered text inside a table cell.

The problem with m column type is that i'm actually using tabularx to auto detect the width of the columns

\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\small\centering\arraybackslash}X}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{YYY}
   & Lorem ipsum \newline Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing & Lorem ipsum \newline Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing \\
Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing & A & B \\
Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing & C & D \\
\end{tabularx}

I would like to vertical centering in the boxes the A, B, C, D text

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The tabularx documentation gives an explicit example of using an m column with small text

 \renewcommand{\tabularxcolumn}[1]{>{\small}m{#1}}

Your column definition already adds \small so you just need to make X use m instead of p so

\renewcommand{\tabularxcolumn}[1]{m{#1}}

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This is a place to use vertical leaders. Here is a starting point.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newsavebox\widgetbox
\begin{document}
\setbox\widgetbox\vbox
  {\vspace*{6pt}\noindent Type of Widget: \dotfill \break
  Observations: \dotfill \break
  \null\dotfill\par}

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\cleaders\copy\widgetbox\vskip0pt plus 1fill
\end{document}

With \cleaders the boxes will be put right on top of each other, with space added on top and bottom to fill the page. Use \xleaders instead to have the extra space between the boxes.

You could also use \leaders, which should place these boxes in the same position on every page. But then you need to pay attention to dimensions. Ideally, the page height should be a whole multiple of the height of your \widgetbox.

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REVISED SOLUTION

One of the problems with your MWE and my earlier tweak thereof was that it did not account for the natural space allocated, by default, between columns, defined by the length \tabcolsep. If narrow is desired, the first thing to do is turn that off, with \setlength\tabcolsep{0pt}. Then, there are no \vspace tweaks required, and the problem becomes determining the column width that satisfies your requirement.

Here, I strove to make the columns as narrow as possible, again, with no tweaking. Note, I saved a copy of \tabcolsep into \svtabcolsep, if I need to reinstate it later.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{multirow}
\begin{document}

\let\svtabcolsep\tabcolsep
\setlength\tabcolsep{0pt}
\newcommand\RotText[1]{\fontsize{9}{9}\selectfont
  \rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{\parbox{2.6cm}{%
\centering#1}}}
\newcolumntype{G}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{.35cm}}
\newcolumntype{U}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{.62cm}}

\begin{table}[ht]\caption{Lorem Ipsum Table}
\footnotesize
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|G|U|U|U|U|G|G|G|U|}
\hline
 & \multicolumn{9}{c|}{Lorem Ipsum} \\ 
\cline{2-10}

Instruction & \RotText{Lorem Ipsum} & \RotText{Lorem Ipsum \& Lorem Ipsum} & \RotText{Lorem Ipsum \& Lorem Ipsum} & \RotText{Lorem Ipsum \& Lorem Ipsum} & 
\RotText{Lorem Ipsum \& Lorem Ipsum} & \RotText{Lorem Ipsum} & \RotText{Lorem Ipsum} & \RotText{Lorem Ipsum} & \RotText{Lorem Ipsum \& Lorem Ipsum} \\
\hline
Lorem Ipsum     & 
& & X   & & & & & & \\

\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\lipsum

\end{document}

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Note you could even dispense with the G and U column types, making them instead c, and using a small, finite value of \tabcolsep to achieve your goal.

\let\svtabcolsep\tabcolsep
\setlength\tabcolsep{.3pt}
\newcolumntype{G}{c}
\newcolumntype{U}{c}

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