Thanks Andrew. With the tweak of one line, this works great. It turns out there were 11 paragraph marks being added instead of only one needed. After adding the merge, all is good.
Code:
If Len(wdTable.Rows(i).Range.Cells(1).Range.Text) < 3 Then
wdTable.Cell(Row:=i, Column:=1).Merge MergeTo:=wdTable.Cell(Row:=i, Column:=11)
wdTable.Rows(i).ConvertToText Separator:=vbCr
End If