Hi, I hope this is an appropriate post, it is my first one raised.
I am running python-docx 0.8.6 and python Python 3.6.1.
Attached is a simplified table that I received for analysis and although it looked like a simple table there were some merged cells at the end of some of the rows:
MergedCells.docx
When I investigated the row's cells and then the columns' cells I found that they were wrong at the bottom of the table (bold below):

  | RowHeaders | Column1 | Column2 | Column2
0|R1 | R1C1 | R1C2 | R1C2
1|R2 | R2C1 | R2C2 | R2C2
2|R3 | R3C1 | R3C2 | R3C2
3|R4 | R4C1 | R4C2 | R5
4|R5C1 | R5C2 | R6 | R6C1
5|R6C2 |   |  

It looks like rows and columns have been created and then cells have been dropped into each space in turn reading left to right then top down. This means that when a row has fewer cells than the column count then the next row's cells are added to this shorter row. 'R%' is the first example in the table above.

#232 shows a solution for this issue: _tc.top, bottom, left, right give correct values when iterating through the table's cells.
I'm putting up this issue to ask whether the rows' and columns' will be corrected?