Merging cells in Google Docs

Question

Is it really not possible to merge cells with Google Docs Document?

I have a table like this:

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| A | B | C |
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| D |   E   |
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Is this possible with Google Docs Document?

I also tried to do table nesting, but then I'm unable to remove padding so it looks terrible.

Answer 1

The short answer is no.
Here is a group post discussing it: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs/thread?tid=7a3c0586722d7c40&hl=en

You could edit the HTML directly but I believe this is only available in the "older" version of the Google Docs editor.