Layout: Merge Cells You can select several cells and Merge them together to make one cell.   1. Try it: Merge Cells Select Cells A1 through A5. Go to Table Tools ->Layout. Go to Merge->Merge Cells.   What Do You See? The selected cells were merged into one. The merged cell inherited the formatting of the first cell, A1.   Keep going... Exam 77-422: Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 3.0 Create Slide Content 3.2 Insert and Format Tables: Modify Layout (Merge Cells) Table Tools->Layout->Merge->Merge Cells But yes, we have no bananas We have no bananas today."