How to center a text in numbers

I am having a little bit of a hard time trying to center a text between 3 or more columns.... how can I do that?

Threre are a few options:
1) select the three cells and merge them, then enter the text and open the cell formatter and center the text horizonatlly. NOTE: merging cells often causes unexpected problems
2) create a text box and type the text, then format as horizontally centered. Place the text box over the cells, set the fill pattern to the same as the cells
3) create another table to be the header :
and set the cell width for one cell to be the same as three in the "other" table
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