Mr. Mayor:

Thanks very much for your post. There is, indeed, a difference between the preview and the completed merge. The merged document is fine.

Needless to say I am mystified as to why Microsoft would provide a preview capability that allows one to step through the entire merge page-by-page but does not show accurate merge results. Its not really a preview at all. Unbelievably bad software design. Malicious software design, really, given the hours I have wasted on this.

Thanks, gmayor.