Note that when your table only has one cell on the left, the abbreviated code shown above will always work. There is no <tr> until you are naming the second row in the right hand side of the table.
In all other cases, to make a cell span more than one row, you simply add 'rowspan = #' to your td tag and omit that cell in the proper number of subsequent rows. To see the exact code that is making the tables below, click on "CODE". I left a blank line where the cell would appear in the second and third rows.
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Colspan][ Colspan and Rowspan Combined ][ Table Tute