Horizontally merged cells

The following example shows you how to create horizontally merged table cells.
import com.independentsoft.office.word.Paragraph;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.Run;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.StandardBorderStyle;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.WordDocument;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.tables.Cell;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.tables.CellProperties;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.tables.HorizontallyMergedCell;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.tables.MergeCellType;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.tables.Row;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.tables.Table;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.tables.TableWidthUnit;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.tables.Width;

public class Example {

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        try
        {
            WordDocument doc = new WordDocument();

            Table table = new Table(StandardBorderStyle.SINGLE_LINE);
            table.setWidth(new Width(TableWidthUnit.PERCENT, 100));

            // First row - header spanning all columns
            Run headerRun = new Run();
            headerRun.addText("Merged Header Cell (spans 3 columns)");

            Paragraph headerPara = new Paragraph();
            headerPara.add(headerRun);

            Cell headerCell = new Cell();
            headerCell.add(headerPara);

            CellProperties headerProps = new CellProperties();
            headerProps.setHorizontallyMergedCell(new HorizontallyMergedCell(MergeCellType.RESTART));
            headerCell.setCellProperties(headerProps);

            Cell emptyCell1 = new Cell();
            CellProperties emptyProps1 = new CellProperties();
            emptyProps1.setHorizontallyMergedCell(new HorizontallyMergedCell(MergeCellType.CONTINUE));
            emptyCell1.setCellProperties(emptyProps1);

            Cell emptyCell2 = new Cell();
            CellProperties emptyProps2 = new CellProperties();
            emptyProps2.setHorizontallyMergedCell(new HorizontallyMergedCell(MergeCellType.CONTINUE));
            emptyCell2.setCellProperties(emptyProps2);

            Row headerRow = new Row();
            headerRow.add(headerCell);
            headerRow.add(emptyCell1);
            headerRow.add(emptyCell2);

            // Second row - normal cells
            Cell cell1 = createCell("Column 1");
            Cell cell2 = createCell("Column 2");
            Cell cell3 = createCell("Column 3");

            Row dataRow = new Row();
            dataRow.add(cell1);
            dataRow.add(cell2);
            dataRow.add(cell3);

            table.add(headerRow);
            table.add(dataRow);

            doc.getBody().add(table);

            doc.save("c:\\test\\output.docx", true);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private static Cell createCell(String text)
    {
        Run run = new Run();
        run.addText(text);

        Paragraph para = new Paragraph();
        para.add(run);

        Cell cell = new Cell();
        cell.add(para);

        return cell;
    }
}
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