Vertical alignment of text in a cell doesn't work

In Numbers 3.2, the vertical text alignment seems to have no effect on the text. Whether I select the text itself, the cell, or the row, pressing one of the vertical alignment buttons for top, middle, or bottom does nothing.
I've searched through all the menus but I don't see anything to affect this. Alignment in the menu is of the left, right, justify variety, not top, middle, bottom.
My goal is to reduce the padding in a row so that I can squeeze the text right up to the cell borders, but Numbers doesn't seem to allow me to do this. Yet I have someone else's number sheet, and it's obviously possible since they have it in their sheet.
Thanks for any help,
Confused newb

AlizaG wrote:
Annoyingly, when I searched for my question I was only shown questions that were not related to this one. Now that I've posted it, the related questions are shown in the sidebar and lo and behold: other people have had this problem too...
The culprit is the automatic text inset of 4 pts. Drastically un-intuitive.
Aliza,
Only un-intuitive if you believe that most people would like their cell content lying right against the cell border.
Jerry

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