What I want to accomplish: I have table content currently spread into multiple cells. I want to merge it into a single block.
What I do: Select the cells and click "merge".
What happens: Most of my content is blanked.
How I try to recover: Hey, there's an 'unmerge' button. Oops, it restores the table structure, but my content is still missing. ("Undo" works, if it occurs to you and you haven't done anything else.)
Ugly workaround #1: Painfully select and cut the content from each separate cell and paste it to a new location.
Ugly workaround #2: Switch to wikitext and edit the table structure manually. (Doesn't wikitext table syntax flow easily from your fingers?)
Possible solutions:
- Merge my content along with the cells.
- Provide a warning that you're going to blank my content.
- Consider putting an extra copy of the 'undo' button next to 'unmerge' in that dialog (so long as undo would actually undo the merge cell action; it would have to go away after my next action).