Merging Cells in Report Designer

Hi,
according to SAP Documentation http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/d7/6b9b41aa6ca309e10000000a155106/frameset.htm
it shall be possible to merge cells within Report Designer. However I have tried it on several ways but was never able to find this functionality.
Also I can not find many other of those cell properties described in the link above. Woeking with Frontend Patch 7, Revision 61
Any help is highly appreciated.
Andreas

Hi,
FYI. I am able to merge cells in the Report Designer by selecting multiple cells, and then selecting 'Merge Cells' from the context sensitive menu. I am using the latest SP for ABAP, JAVA, and front-end.
An alternative to merging cells is merging texts within one cell. This will often do.
Regards,
József.

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