Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-32590715-20200701214939

I'm trying to create a table with various merged cells to signal when someone held a specific position when compared to the tenure of their boss, but I'm having trouble with getting cells to merge the way I want.

Table: https://araenyontest.fandom.com/wiki/Araenyontest_Wiki:Sandbox

I am trying to merge the cell with '???' with the cell above it that has 'Wickon I Peath' in it, thus making 'Tranian Rilis' have served during the tenure of three seperate bosses. I'm having trouble because neither the Visual Editor nor the Classical Editor allow me to merge that single cell. If I do merge it, then my merge is negated and the overlap effect dissapears, which is what I'm trying to achieve.

I've tried going through everthing specifically using Source Mode, but I can't seem to wrap my mind around 'rowspan'. According to what I've read, I'm mean to input the number of rows the cell will touch, except that it doesn't seem at all consistent. If you look into source mode on the table I included above, you'll see that the 'Wickon I Peath' cell has a rowspan of 2 even though it only spans 1, and 'Tranian Rilis' has a rowspan of 4, even though it only spans 3.

I just don't know how to do it manually, and the Classic Editor/Visual Editor seems to fail me here. I would really appreciate some help in how to address this sort of problem with tables. Thank you! 