Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Vertical and horizontal Alignment in Table Cells with Image

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Hi,

I have a table which contains images (tikzpicture) in one column. I would like the first column to have text centred vertically and horizontally. I would like the second column to have text left justified and centred vertically. I would like the third column to contain a small image centred vertically and horizontally. The final two columns should both be left justified and aligned at the top of the cell.

The closest I have come to this is with the code below:

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{booktabs}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{m{2cm} p{2cm} m{3cm} p{3cm} p{3cm}} 
		\toprule 
			\multicolumn{1}{c}{Header 1} & 
			\multicolumn{1}{c}{Header 2} & 
			\multicolumn{1}{c}{Header 3} & 
			\multicolumn{1}{c}{Header 4} & 
			\multicolumn{1}{c}{Header 5} \\ 
    \midrule
			Short Text & 	
			Slightly Longer Text & 
			    \begin{tikzpicture}[baseline={($(current bounding box.center)+(0,-0.5ex)$)}]
		          % Draw beam and end lines
		          \draw (-1.5,-0.75) rectangle (1.5,0.75) ;
		          \useasboundingbox (current bounding box.north west) ++(0,1ex) (current bounding box.south east) ++(0,-1ex);
		      \end{tikzpicture}
		  & 
		  \raisebox{0.6cm}{\parbox[t]{3cm}{Some text that extends onto more than one line as there's plenty of it.}} & 
		  \raisebox{0.6cm}{\parbox[t]{3cm}{Some text that extends onto more than one line as there's plenty of it. Some text that extends onto more than one line as there's plenty of it.}} \\
			Short Text	& 
			Slightly Longer Text & 
			    \begin{tikzpicture}[baseline={($(current bounding box.center)+(0,-0.5ex)$)}]
		          % Draw beam and end lines
		          \draw (-1.5,-0.75) rectangle (1.5,0.75) ;
		          \useasboundingbox (current bounding box.north west) ++(0,1ex) (current bounding box.south east) ++(0,-1ex);
		      \end{tikzpicture}
		  & 
		  \raisebox{0.4cm}{\parbox[t]{3cm}{Some text that extends onto more than one line as there's plenty of it.}} & 
		  \raisebox{0.4cm}{\parbox[t]{3cm}{Some text that extends onto more than one line as there's plenty of it. Some text that extends onto more than one line as there's plenty of it.}} \\
			Short Text & Slightly Longer Text & Short Text & Short Text & \\
			Short Text & Slightly Longer Text & Short Text & Short Text & \\
    \bottomrule 
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

I can manually fix the alignment of every cell individually, but I really want to have it happen automatically, so I can change the font size etc in future without screwing it up. How do I do this? Using the 'm' or 'b' column specifiers does not seem to have any effect whatsoever.

Thanks!

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I've now had my question answered here.