Blind as I am, I fail to see what does controll the colspan a table is using. |-----------------------------------------------------------| |1959|Als Tierarzt haben wir eine besonders verantwortungsvolle usw| |-----------------------------------------------------------| |1965|Da war auch was | |-----------------------------------------------------------| makes the field containing 1965 using two cols, whereas |-----------------------------------------------------------| |1959|Als Tierarzt haben wir eine besonders verantwortungsvo| |-----------------------------------------------------------| |1965|Da war auch was | |-----------------------------------------------------------| uses only one. Note only the length of the second filed of the first row has changed. Robert