Merge & center button grayed out

[dasnuts]

Office XP Excel:

I am trying to figure out how to use the Merge & Center button when I am
formatting a table in Excel. It only occurs if I am in the table layout or
editing a table. If I click on a normal cell which has no color the Merge &
Center button works fine.

Any ideas?

 

[dasnuts]

Thanks Dan. I figured that tables wouldnt allow me to Merge two cells
together but I wanted to confirm first.

I have two products where the part numbers are exactly the same so merging
the cells looked better then repeating the part numbers over again. If there
is a work around I would surely appreciate it.