Apache POI merge cells from a table in a Word document

Question

I need to have a table with the cells on the first and second row merged.

Something like this:

Image of table (I can\'t post pics) http://i.stack.imgur.com/d

Answer 1

It seems xml has to be removed as well:

 XWPFTableCell removed = tableRow.getCell(idx);
 removed.getCTTc().newCursor().removeXml();
 tableRow.removeCell(idx);