Unsplitting cells in InDesign tables

I want to edit or remove the splits in a cell in a table, i cannot find a way of doing this apart from recreating the row. Does anyone know a better method?

Maybe it will help if I explain what I'm trying to do. The table is a drugs chart which keeps track of the number of times a day a certain medicine should be taken. Each row represents a different medicine, and the cells the days of the week. Each cell is then split to indicate the number of doses in a day. I am trying to alter the the number of splits in a cell to indicate a different number of doses in a day. So I want to keep the cells separate but alter the number of vertical splits.

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Greetings
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Thanks.
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I have been struggling with this problem for ages, please someone help...
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Here is a bare-bones example of the problem I'm having. I'm running on JDK1.4 and JDK1.3.1_02.
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import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.table.*;
* This example shows a keyboard/focus navigation problem when using a JPanel
* as a table cell editor. The JPanel contains a textfield and a button.
* Click in the editor to invoke it, and tab-off (or press cursor down). The
* edit ends, but the focus disappears rather than moving to the next cell in
* the table.
* Change the line that returns the panel to return a text field instead, and
* all is well.
public class Test
public static void main( String[] args )
    new Test();
public Test()
    JFrame f = new JFrame();
    f.setContentPane( new TablePanel() );
    f.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
    f.setSize( 800, 600 );
    f.setVisible( true );
class TablePanel extends JPanel
    TablePanel()
      setLayout( new BorderLayout() );
      JTable table = new JTable();
      table.setDefaultEditor( Object.class, new MyEditor() );
      table.setModel(
        new DefaultTableModel(
          new Object[][]
            {null, null},
            {null, null},
            {null, null},
            {null, null}
          new String[] { "A", "B" } ) );
      add( table, BorderLayout.CENTER );
class MyEditor extends AbstractCellEditor implements TableCellEditor
    private JComponent myEditorPanel;
    private JTextField myTextField;
    MyEditor()
      myEditorPanel = new MyEditorPanel();
      myTextField = new JTextField();
    public Object getCellEditorValue()
      return null;
    public Component getTableCellEditorComponent( JTable table, Object value,
                                                  boolean isSelected,
                                                  int row, int column )
      return myEditorPanel;   // Problems...
//      return myTextField;   // Keyboard and focus as expected
class MyEditorPanel extends JPanel
    JTextField tf;
    MyEditorPanel()
      setLayout( new BorderLayout() );
      tf = new JTextField();
      add( tf, BorderLayout.CENTER );
      add( new JButton( "edit" ), BorderLayout.EAST );

How do I click on a cell in a table control, and display the value in a string?

What I would like to do is to click on a cell in a table control, and have the value of the cell be displayed in a string indicator. What ever cell I click on, I would like the value to be displayed in the indicator.
Thank you!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

... or
Event >>> ouse down for table.
Use Coords" to feed invoke node "point To Row Column" and returned "Cell Postion" can be unbundled to produce the row and column tht can be used to index out the value.
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