If I understand the problem here just highlight to column with the numbers
or just the cells you want to align,
and go to Format Cells and from the Window choose Alignment and set
Horizontal to Left and Vertical to
Top and click OK.  You may even have icons to do this on the top of your
page.
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:30 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:

> I have a bunch of two-cell tables which have a number in the left cell
> and a formula in the right cell. I wish each to be numbered by putting
> the number in the left cell. But I want the number to be at the top of
> the cell, and the formula cell to be whatever height it needs to be.
>
> Setting the height of the row to Fit to Size makes the formula appear
> correctly, but the number in the left cell is centered vertically in
> its cell. And yes, I went into cell and checked that it should be at
> the top, but the number stubbornly remains vertically centered.
>
> I also made sure that the entire table is set to zero inside offsets on
> all four sides and for all cells, rows and columns. Still no go.
>
> And I have tried various line spacing options in Format > Paragraph,
> all without luck.
>
> The appearance I want to achieve is this:
>
> 1. this is the formula
>    and this is more of
>    the formula
>
> 2. this is the second
>    formula and this is
>    more of the second
>    formula - note that it
>    is taller
>
> But what I am getting is this:
>
>    this is the formula
> 1. and this is more of
>    the formula
>
>    this is the second
>    formula and this is
> 2. more of the second
>    formula - note that it
>    is taller
>
> So how can I line up the numbers in the left cell at the top of the
> cell?
>
>
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