I have a section in a Word document that is formatted to have three columns. I began adding phrases to this section, and they filled in the first column, then filled in the second column, and then finally filled in the third column, just as I wanted. When I deleted a phrase from anywhere in the list of values, all the values that followed it would re-flow to fill in the space, including that the topmost phrase in the third column would reposition itself at the bottom of the second column. All well and good.

The problem is that the value of the phrase at the top of the first column was long, so that very first value wrapped around to occupy two physical line positions. So far so good. However, the topmost value in the second column, which does not wrap around onto a second physical line, appears to be vertically aligned with the midpoint between the two physical lines of the first entry in the first column. A screen shot is provided.

[![Illustration of the problem](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HK2w1.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HK2w1.png)

Notice how the phrase "Machine Learning" appears to align vertically with a point halfway between "Administrative Health Claims" and "Data" in the first column.

Because this set of three columns is not a Word table, I can't just select the contents of all three columns and tell Word to align them to the tops of their respective cells. But in searching the documentation on columns in Word, I haven't been able to find anything that tells how to align the cell contents in a multi-column section of the document all to the tops of the cells in which they reside.

Is there a way to do it?