Vertically Align to center of text box

I have a project that has 500+ Peices and each one consists of a 1 of three logos and 1 of 500+ lines of text and all the lines of text are different lengths
I am using data sets and variables.xml to create them all quickly. Now the problem I am having is getting the text to wrap properly this was easilly solved by using a text box. But now I would like to center all text vertically inside the box. Can someone point me in the right direction.

You are welcome, darkorical.
Depending on the task/options, it may be worth looking at this thread,
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/756492?tstart=30
and at the
JET_AutoFitVertical.jsx
JET_SetCapsHeight.jsx
scripts mad available by James here:
http://www.illustrationetc.com/AI_Javascripts/TextScripts.htm

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