BI Publisher for WORD creates last row of a table as merged cells

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BI Publisher for WORD creates last row of a table as merged cells

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With BI publisher for WORD I created a template with a table to be able to run the report to Excel. The report, when run, creates a row at the end of the output which is a merged field. I cannot figure out how to get rid of this row on the template. Is there a way to do this?

The two documents contain: a screenshot of the output showing the merged row at the bottom; my rich text template

Dena