Merge Cells Without a Break?

Post Author: JT21598
CA Forum: Desktop Intelligence Reporting
All,
Basically what I am trying to do is merge some cells that have duplicate values in them. The records themselves are not duplicates but there are certain values within those records that show multiple times and I would like to only represent these values once. Here is a sample which might make this clearer.
SECTION HEADER1
Object1          Object2          Object3          Object4
12                   13                  14                  15
13                   13                  15                  16
14                   13                  16                  21
SECTION HEADER2
Object1          Object2           Object3         Object4
(Different value here than from before.)
Basically what I would like to do is take the value in that is repeating in the Object2 Column in Section Header1 (13) and merge those cells together and center the number so that you can tell the one value is being used to represent the value in all three of the rows. I have looked far and wide and the only way I have found to do this is with a break which will completely mess up the formatting of the report. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Thanks, Gary. I did find a solution to the problem which I should have guessed earlier.
1. My relief map is my master slide, and all my graphics are simply copied from Adobe Illustrator where they are made.
2. My problem was the blink in the None transition, but I find that this is because I thought I had to have some type of Build chosen. This meant that my graphics had to await my master slide.
3. I now discovered that if I put on the graphics from the previous slice and leave my build for these graphics as "None" (and the transition at "None"), then they will appear with my master slide without a blink.
Thus I will try your suggestion above, but my immediate problem is solved. Many thanks!

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