Word Tables Cell Properties

I need to isolate the following information on each cell of a Word table but I can't see where these properties may be found:

1) The amount of columns that the cell spans
2) Which column numbers (index) they span

Any ideas anyone...

Neil

As there is no obvious method or property to indicate if a cell is Merged or not, you may have to loop through all the rows, counting the number of cells in each row. If a row has less cells than the norm, then you can be sure that it contains a merged cell. Then you can check the widths of each cell.

Let me know if you need help of cell counting etc...