Problem with drowing table with merged cells

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Hi guys!
I have a problem with drowing table using Aspose.Words

So I need to get this result table:
-**link to proper table view** -

To drow this table I’ve written the next code:

Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
Table table = builder.startTable();

builder.insertCell();

builder.write("ROW 1");

builder.insertCell();

builder.getCellFormat().setHorisontalMerge(CellMerge.FIRST);

builder.write("VALUE 1");

builder.insertCell();

builder.getCellFormat().setHorisontalMerge(CellMerge.PREVIOUS);

builder.insertCell();

builder.getCellFormat().setHorisontalMerge(CellMerge.PREVIOUS);

builder.endRow();

// next row

builder.insertCell();

builder.write("ROW 2");

builder.insertCell();

builder.write("VLAUE 2_1");

builder.insertCell();

builder.write("VLAUE 2_2");

builder.insertCell();

builder.write("VLAUE 2_3");

builder.endRow();

builder.endTable()

But as usually in reality… I’m getting next table:
- **link to incorrect table view**-
My question is why cell ‘VALUE 1’ doesn’t cover all “VALUE 2_*” cells from “ROW 2”, why does it cover only one cell “VALUE 2_1”?
And how can I drow prpoper table from my example?

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Hi Eugene,

Thanks for your inquiry. First off, please upgrade to the latest version of Aspose.Words for Java i.e. 15.6.0.
https://releases.aspose.com/words/java

Secondly, I have fixed your code as follows:

Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
Table table = builder.startTable();
builder.insertCell();
builder.write("ROW 1");
builder.insertCell();
builder.getCellFormat().setHorizontalMerge(CellMerge.FIRST);
builder.write("VALUE 1");
builder.insertCell();
builder.getCellFormat().setHorizontalMerge(CellMerge.PREVIOUS);
builder.insertCell();
builder.getCellFormat().setHorizontalMerge(CellMerge.PREVIOUS);
builder.endRow();
// next row
builder.insertCell();
builder.getCellFormat().setHorizontalMerge(CellMerge.NONE);
builder.write("ROW 2");
builder.insertCell();
builder.write("VLAUE 2_1");
builder.insertCell();
builder.write("VLAUE 2_2");
builder.insertCell();
builder.write("VLAUE 2_3");
builder.endRow();
builder.endTable();
doc.save(getMyDir() + "15.6.0.docx");

I hope, this helps.

Best regards,