Report Designer : merging cells

Hi,
I have a report with a block of information  and after that block -lower on the same page- the results. So in fact it looks like a 3.5 BEx query result in Excell with a navigation block at the top of the page and the results below that navigation block.
Unfortunately some colums in the resultgrid are smaller than the texts in the navigation block. Because of that, the content (texts) on the navigation block are cut off.
I would like to merge cells so that the texts of the navigation blocks are not longer cut off (like in Excell: when a cell contains a very long text and the neighbour-cells at the right are not filled, the text appears above the other cells).
Anybody an idea to merge cells in the Report designer?
Kind regards,
Bart

Hello Bart 
Merging of Cells is currently not possible with Report Designer. It is planned to be available with support stack 14.
Please have a look a the BI Functional Enhancements Schedule on the service marketplace (s-user required):
<a href="http://service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700004483762006E">service.sap.com/bi -> Functional Enhancements Schedule BI in NW2004s</a>
Best regards
Martin Rapp

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