Narrative Reporting: Multiple Suppressions on the Same Columns

In a Narrative Report that we've built, we need multiple columns to be suppressed based on a cell value that points to a member alias in a column. For example, if cell value 1A is "May" then suppress columns M-O. We needed to add another suppression to the report to say if cell value 2B is "Plan" then suppress columns G-T. Since these suppressions overlap in columns, it will remove the "applies to" values and they cannot be repopulated without creating a the suppression over again. Does anyone have any solutions on a workaround for this? We want to be