diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiTabular.cpp b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiTabular.cpp
index 8fe7961474..be775c4148 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiTabular.cpp
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiTabular.cpp
@@ -428,7 +428,11 @@ docstring GuiTabular::dialogToParams() const
 		setParam(param_str, Tabular::SET_PWIDTH, width);
 
 	// apply the column alignment
-	setHAlign(param_str);
+	// multirows inherit the alignment from the column; if a column width
+	// is set, multicolumns are always left-aligned so that in this case
+	// its alignment must not be applied (see bug #8084)
+	if (!(multirowCB->isChecked() && width != "0pt"))
+		setHAlign(param_str);
 
 	// SET_DECIMAL_POINT must come after setHAlign() (ALIGN_DECIMAL)
 	string decimal_point = fromqstr(decimalPointED->text());
diff --git a/status.20x b/status.20x
index cecc963e3d..e6a94492be 100644
--- a/status.20x
+++ b/status.20x
@@ -87,10 +87,13 @@ What's new
 - Fixed stray warning when inserting inserting plaintext file (bug 7916).
 
 - Don't reset the selected format each time we click into a new paragraph
-  in View>Source (bug 7997).
+  in View->Source (bug 7997).
 
 - Stop screen from jumping around so much on undo and redo (bug 6367).
 
+- Setting a multirow offset no longer also changes table column
+  alignments (bug 8084).
+
 - Fix undo warning when inserting plain text file (bug 7916).