Merged Cell over Page Break is not Displayed properly

[ArneG]

Not certain this will work but try "merge across" instead of "merge".

The Cell(s) in question are already merged "row-wise". Sorry, had to mentioned it earlier.

However, the best approach is to never utilize any 'merging' at all. It will always, at some point, get you in trouble. Truly.

Well, yes. I could do that. But it also means throwing away a big bunch of work (solving this particular problem not included). I would like to try a few things, before redesign the table structure and work around thereby a MS Word shortcoming.

If your table has 'around' text wrapping, revert to 'none'.

Since I could not find such a property for the table object, but for rows, I guess you mean it that way. If not, correct me please.
Row-Setting is

Table.Rows.WrapAroundText = False ' (or '0')

Additionally, use :
• 'keep together' paragraph formatting on all paragraphs in the merged cells; and
• 'keep with next' paragraph formatting on all paragraphs except the last in the merged cells.

I've tried it. But no luck. The behavior does not change

    For i = startRow To endRow
        tbl.Cell(i, 2).Merge MergeTo:=tbl.Cell(i + 1, 2)
        If endRow - i >= 4 Then ' do it for all, but the last
            tbl.Cell(i, 2).Range.ParagraphFormat.KeepTogether = True
            tbl.Cell(i, 2).Range.ParagraphFormat.KeepWithNext = True
        End If
        i = i + 1
    Next i

I will experiment with some other ideas. Maybe I find something that keeps my current structure and looks still good. But I would still love to solve the display issue programmatically. And not with some hacky workarounds :-)