Never mind... From FOR-312:

   The current state-of-the-art is that Forrest supports OpenOffice
Writer tables with horizontally merged table cells, but not vertically
   merged cells. Issue FOR-262 made some improvement but did
   not finish the job.

On Apr 25, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Web Maestro Clay wrote:
FYI...

FOR-262
- openoffice2forrest: add support for merged cells in tables

FOR-312
- Merged cells in OOo tables

FOR-262 is closed, but FOR-312 is still open.

Clay Leeds
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