Adjusting Column After Splitting a Cell

Hello,
I am new with Pages and am amazingly impressed with all that it does. Perhaps I am pushiing it a bit too far but when I split a cell into two cells I am not able to adjust the size of any of the two cells. Is this normal?
Thanks in advance.
Farzad

Thanks. Here is what I have done:
I created an ordinary table and then merged two cells of two columns together for formatting purposes. Down the road I decided I didn't want them merged and so I splitted that merged cell into two cells, and it worked. It is these two new cells that I cannot resize.
I can't attach the file so I am attaching a snapshot of it to this message.
Thanks for the replies.
Farzad

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