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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 5-7-5 on page 274.
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%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{multirow}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|}
\hline
\multirow{4}{25mm}{Common text in column 1}
& Cell 1a \\\cline{2-2} & Cell 1b\\\cline{2-2}
& Cell 1c \\\cline{2-2} & Cell 1d\\\hline
\multirow{4}{25mm}[-3mm]{Common text in column 1}
& Cell 2a \\\cline{2-2} & Cell 2b\\\cline{2-2}
& Cell 2c \\\cline{2-2} & Cell 2d\\\hline
\multirow{4}{25mm}[3mm]{Common text in column 1}
& Cell 3a \\\cline{2-2} & Cell 3b\\\cline{2-2}
& Cell 3c \\\cline{2-2} & Cell 3d\\\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}