Compatibility issues with Word2013 and vMerge

[florinsecal]

Hi there,

I have an issue when editing tables with vertical merged cells in docx with Word 2013.

Repro Steps:

• create a docx document with PHPWord (the table must be on the pages)
• Use vMerge to merge a few cells
• Open the document in Word 2013 and edit the part of the table on the 2nd page
• Notice that:
  1.some of the cells cannot be selected.
  2.if you start editing the content of cells in the table, you will notice that some rows are duplicated
  3.if you save the document (Word asks to use compatibility mode), the cells that are not editable will lose the content

Other editors:

• Libre Writer 4.3 - PASS
• Kingsoft Writer 9.1 - PASS
• Word 2007 - PASS
• Word 2013 - FAIL

Code sample

test.php

setDefaultFontName('Times New Roman'); $phpWord->setDefaultFontSize(12); $section = $phpWord->addSection(array('orientation'=>'landscape')); $cellStyleMerge = array( 'borderColor' => '000000', 'borderSize' => 6, 'vMerge' => 'restart' ); $cellStyleContinue = array( 'borderColor' => '000000', 'borderSize' => 6, 'vMerge' => 'continue' ); //some text $section->addText("RANDOM TEXT ".generateRandomString(2000)); //Table $table = $section->addTable(); $table->addRow(); $table->addCell(848)->addText('No'); $table->addCell(2600, $cellStyleMerge)->addText("Title A"); $table->addCell(3400, $cellStyleMerge)->addText("Title B"); $table->addCell(3400, $cellStyleMerge)->addText("Title C"); $table->addCell(3400, $cellStyleMerge)->addText("Title D"); $table->addCell(1200, $cellStyleMerge)->addText("Title E"); for ($i = 0; $i <= 10; $i++) { if ($i % 2 == 0) { $table->addRow(); $table->addCell(848, $cellStyleMerge)->addText($i); $table->addCell(2600, $cellStyleMerge)->addText("text".$i); if ($i == 0) { $table->addCell(3400, $cellStyleMerge)->addText("text".$i); } else { $table->addCell(null, $cellStyleContinue); } $table->addCell(3400)->addText("text".$i); $table->addCell(3400)->addText("text".$i); $table->addCell(1200)->addText("text".$i); } else { //new task $table->addRow(); $table->addCell(null, $cellStyleContinue); $table->addCell(null, $cellStyleContinue); $table->addCell(null, $cellStyleContinue); $table->addCell(3400)->addText("text".$i); $table->addCell(3400)->addText("text".$i); $table->addCell(1200)->addText("text".$i); } } // SAVE $date = date_create(); $name = 'a6 - develop'; write($phpWord, $name, $writers); $download_link = "Download:
".$name.""; return $download_link; } generate(); ?>

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