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Hi JennEx,

There are no apparent errors with mailmerging the data you've attached to your post.

That said, I note that you have columns, such as 'Gtimec' where the times are preceded by '<'. You need to be aware that those cells are not storing time values, but text strings. When you have columns with mixed data types (eg text strings and 'real' times) for a mailmerge, the process Word uses to determine the column's data type for the mailmerge can result in unexpected results. For example, if the column starts of with 'real' times or numbers, Word might determine that the column contains time or numeric data and any strings might evaluate as 0 time or 0 value. Conversely, if you have strings, 'real' times might be returned as numeric strings. With that in mind, the safer approach would be to have the '<' in a separate column to the time, such as you have with 's1' and merge both columns.
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