Writer: Is there any way to duplicate a table row containing merged cells?

If I select as follows (attached):

and Paste below, I get:

which looks fine… except this is not one table but two. Any one know a workaround for a row having merged cells?

Proof this is not one table but two is Column select stops here:

Deleting that “column” leaves no such pointer available on the second “column”:

Workaround: Table > Select > Column.

Copy-paste fragments.odt (12.3 KB)