diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
index 89dc67248..e3cbd0b1a 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 
     <changes>
         <release version="3.7-beta2" date="2010-??-??">
+           <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">49508 - Allow the addition of paragraphs to XWPF Table Cells</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">49446 - Don't consider 17.16.23 field codes as properly part of the paragraph's text</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">XSLFSlideShow shouldn't break on .thmx (theme) files. Support for them is still very limited though</action>
         </release>
diff --git a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/IBody.java b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/IBody.java
index 35ebffd91..c42fde7d1 100644
--- a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/IBody.java
+++ b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/IBody.java
@@ -19,14 +19,11 @@ package org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel;
 
 import java.util.List;
 
-import org.apache.poi.POIXMLDocumentPart;
 import org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlCursor;
 import org.openxmlformats.schemas.wordprocessingml.x2006.main.CTP;
 import org.openxmlformats.schemas.wordprocessingml.x2006.main.CTTbl;
 import org.openxmlformats.schemas.wordprocessingml.x2006.main.CTTc;
 
-
-
 /**
  * <p>
  * 8 Jan 2010
@@ -123,9 +120,6 @@ public interface IBody {
 	 * @return
 	 */
 	XWPFTableCell getTableCell(CTTc cell);
-  	
-
-	
 	
 }
 
diff --git a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFFooter.java b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFFooter.java
index f6aa6b1ee..1bce85fb4 100644
--- a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFFooter.java
+++ b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFFooter.java
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ public class XWPFFooter extends XWPFHeaderFooter {
     protected void commit() throws IOException {
         XmlOptions xmlOptions = new XmlOptions(DEFAULT_XML_OPTIONS);
         xmlOptions.setSaveSyntheticDocumentElement(new QName(CTNumbering.type.getName().getNamespaceURI(), "ftr"));
-        Map map = new HashMap();
+        Map<String,String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
         map.put("http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006", "ve");
         map.put("urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office", "o");
         map.put("http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships", "r");
diff --git a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFHeader.java b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFHeader.java
index 0af356462..6a5dd3783 100644
--- a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFHeader.java
+++ b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFHeader.java
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ public class XWPFHeader extends XWPFHeaderFooter {
     protected void commit() throws IOException {
         XmlOptions xmlOptions = new XmlOptions(DEFAULT_XML_OPTIONS);
         xmlOptions.setSaveSyntheticDocumentElement(new QName(CTNumbering.type.getName().getNamespaceURI(), "hdr"));
-        Map map = new HashMap();
+        Map<String,String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
         map.put("http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006", "ve");
         map.put("urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office", "o");
         map.put("http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships", "r");
diff --git a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFTableCell.java b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFTableCell.java
index 3e317cca6..33adec490 100644
--- a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFTableCell.java
+++ b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFTableCell.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ public class XWPFTableCell implements IBody {
         this.part = part;
         this.tableRow = tableRow;
         // NB: If a table cell does not include at least one block-level element, then this document shall be considered corrupt.
-        if(cell.getPArray().length<1)
+        if(cell.getPList().size()<1)
         	cell.addNewP();
         bodyElements = new ArrayList<IBodyElement>();
         paragraphs = new ArrayList<XWPFParagraph>();
@@ -89,6 +89,16 @@ public class XWPFTableCell implements IBody {
     		return paragraphs;
     }
     
+    /**
+     * Add a Paragraph to this Table Cell
+     * @return The paragraph which was added
+     */
+    public XWPFParagraph addParagraph() {
+       XWPFParagraph p = new XWPFParagraph(ctTc.addNewP(), this);
+       addParagraph(p);
+       return p;
+    }
+    
     /**
      * add a Paragraph to this TableCell
      * @param p the paragaph which has to be added
@@ -296,7 +306,7 @@ public class XWPFTableCell implements IBody {
 	public void insertTable(int pos, XWPFTable table) {
 		bodyElements.add(pos, table);
 		int i;
-    	for (i = 0; i < ctTc.getTblArray().length; i++) {
+    	for (i = 0; i < ctTc.getTblList().size(); i++) {
 			CTTbl tbl = ctTc.getTblArray(i);
 			if(tbl == table.getCTTbl()){
 				break;