Cell auto-resize after vertical merge of two cells.

Question

Ladies and Gents,
That is my question.
I am creating a sheet for grants and as part of my "Degree Program Profile" template project.
My intent is to have six column headings spread between columns "A" through "J".
"Date Earned" occupies cells A2/A3 "vertically merged with text centered vertically".
"X No. of Times" occupies cells B2/B3 "......................".
"Target Major/Target Minor" occupies cells C2/C3 and D2/D3 "...............".
"Awarding Entity" occupies cells E2/E3 F2/F3 G2/G3 "..................".
"Reason for Award" occupies cells H2/H3 I1/I2 ".................".
"Amount" is supposed to occupy cells J2/J3 "........................".   <- this is the trouble area.
When I merge cells J1 and J2 on my spreadsheet, numbers automatically resizes the entire row to a smaller "single row" of cells.
How do prevent this from happening?

Answer 1

Thanks I got it.
The behavior is much more spectacular that what you wrote and it's reproducible.
You merged A2 & A3, B2 & B3, C2 & D2 & C3 & D3,
E2 & F2 & G2 & E3 & F3 & G3 , H2 & I 2 & H3 & I3
Merging H2 & H3 behave as a special un-merge action.
We get : C2 & D2, E2 & F2 & G2, H2 & I 2
but the cells of row 3 are no longer merged to cells of row 2 and no longer merged in the row.
In other words, every cells of row 3 retrieve their independence.
This behavior is always striking if we apply the merge feature to every cells in a row.
If I add a column K to your table, the problem doesn't surface.
I made an other attempt.
Before merging the described groups of cells, I inserted - character in every cells of row 3.
I inserted the string "row 4" in the cell A4.
Then I merged the described way.
Before merging J2 & J3, I has two tabs numbers 2 & 3 for this couple of rows.
When I merged J2 & J3, what was a couple of rows loose it's status and became a single row 2
and the string  "row 4" is in row 3 !
If rows 2 & 3 were defined as header rows, after the merge tasks, the Table is described as having only two header rows.
I guess that you already understood that I will file a report upon what resemble to a bug.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 5 juin 2011 10:11:57
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