Will try with removing the element.
For now I made a little helper utility that counts the number of columns and rows, and adds an extra row with empty columns, and sets the row properties of that row to a height of 1 without border. So basically invisible row. Seems to work fine for now.
Can you give a quick example of how the xpath query would look, or how you would remove removeWordContent for something like this? Didn't use it before