I am trying to remove an infuriating formatting glitch from a table I
am copying from Excel to Word.

In Excel it looks like a normal table.  There is no sign of any funny
formatting.

But when copied to Word the top left cell appears as a "cell within a
cell".  Instead of the cell having a solid blue background, it appears
as a blue box within a larger white cell.

I've tried everything to get rid of the "cell within a cell".

I've merged and unmerged the cell.  I've used the format painter to put
a correct cell onto it.

If I try to tab out of that cell it instead adds another row.

Screenshots of the table when copied into word can be seen here:

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/3175/screenshotou4.jpg
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/1434/screenshot2mp3.jpg

I've even inserted new rows a few lines after that row and manually
retyped the contents of the other cells, deleting the offending rows in
the hope of getting rid of whatever it was that was there as a final
desperation move to nuke the thing.  Amazingly this didn't work either!

In Excel this looks like a perfectly normal table.  There is no sign of
any weird formatting there at all.  

Travis