So, you will now want to select the cells you want to merge in a table. The selected cells can be adjacent in a column or row. Or they can span multiple columns and rows if this is what you want ...

Use Word 2010's Numbering feature in tables and make it automatically number multiple table columns vertically. This way, each cell in each column will be placed under the correct number.

To accomplish an AND across multiple columns, we’ll use the * symbol, which is similar to the AND () function, but AND () doesn’t work as you might expect when combined with FILTER ().