Well I was only pointing it out since it wasnt mentioned about the tab and stuff but anyways...


For validating the structure I gave you code to determine the cell counts. This will tell you if its got the correct cell count in each row. If not then it contains a merged cell.

You can not detect if a cell is merged with the word object model other then doing the count comparison. There is no property or function that will tell you if a cell or row or table contains merged cells.