Horizontally merged cells

The following example shows you how to create horizontally merged table cells.

import com.independentsoft.office.word.Paragraph;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.Run;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.StandardBorderStyle;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.WordDocument;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.tables.Cell;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.tables.Row;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.tables.Table;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.tables.TableWidthUnit;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.tables.Width;

public class Example {

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        try
        {
            WordDocument doc = new WordDocument();

            Table table = new Table(StandardBorderStyle.SINGLE_LINE);
            table.setWidth(new Width(TableWidthUnit.PERCENT, 100));

            // First row - header cell spanning all 3 columns
            Run headerRun = new Run();
            headerRun.addText("Merged Header Cell (spans 3 columns)");

            Paragraph headerPara = new Paragraph();
            headerPara.add(headerRun);

            Cell headerCell = new Cell();
            headerCell.add(headerPara);
            headerCell.setGridSpan(3); // span across 3 columns

            Row headerRow = new Row();
            headerRow.add(headerCell);

            // Second row - normal cells
            Cell cell1 = createCell("Column 1");
            Cell cell2 = createCell("Column 2");
            Cell cell3 = createCell("Column 3");

            Row dataRow = new Row();
            dataRow.add(cell1);
            dataRow.add(cell2);
            dataRow.add(cell3);

            table.add(headerRow);
            table.add(dataRow);

            doc.getBody().add(table);

            doc.save("c:/test/output.docx", true);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private static Cell createCell(String text)
    {
        Run run = new Run();
        run.addText(text);

        Paragraph para = new Paragraph();
        para.add(run);

        Cell cell = new Cell();
        cell.add(para);

        return cell;
    }
}

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