Dear Hans, In MKIV I miss the probably recently dropped command \use{number-of-column} from \starttable ... \stoptable environment. In MKII it still works perfectly fine. Here's an example from Wiki for testing: \starttable[s(0pt)|ls(10pt)|rs(0pt)|] \HL \NC \use{2}\ReFormat[cB]{Spanning head} \SR \HL \NC \Use{2}[cB]{Spanning head} \SR % slightly shorted \HL \NC left column text \VL right column text \NC \AR \NC new row \VL new row \NC \AR \NC left column text \VL \ReFormat[l]{reformatted} \NC \AR \HL \NC \use{2}Spanning entry \SR \HL \stoptable Mojca PS: I cannot use \bTABLE since it is very ugly.