Adobe Acrobat Table Cell Properties - Row Span of More Than 1 Creates Errors

For future reference, these are the instructions helped me achieve what I was trying to do.

• Open the Tags panel:
  View > Show/Hide > Navigation Panes > Tags

• Expand the structure:

  • Find your <Table> tag.

  • Expand it to see rows (<TR>), cells (<TD> or <TH>), and so on.

• Locate the "Species" cells (e.g., Lynx, River otter, Wolverine):

  • Each of these should only appear once in the table, and their cell (<TD> or <TH>) should appear only once per 5-row block.

• Delete redundant cells:

  • Acrobat doesn’t remove the extra "row-spanned" cells from the tag tree, so they still exist and confuse screen readers.

  • Delete the extra “Lynx,” “River otter,” and “Wolverine” cells that show up in rows 2–5 of their group. Only the top cell in each group should remain.

• Reorder child tags if needed:

  • Make sure each <TR> (table row) still has the correct number of child <TD> or <TH> tags.

  • Each row should reflect its correct cells excluding the spanned cell, which will already be counted by the rowspan.