I would still be very suspicious of mergefield names that are preceeded and
followed by what appear to be spaces. I say appear to be, because they may
not always be treated as spaces depending up just what they are - Chinese
characters for instance that do not display as such when the text file is
opened.

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The above is what I see in the Word mailmerge fieldname. When I
manually open the text file it appears like this:
" name
"," address ", etc...

The only difference I can see between the problem fieldname and the
others is the length.
If I take a valid field in the ASCII text file and add spaces to it, so
that the total field length is over 39, then the same thing happens to
it.
I've tried Unicode format as well, same problem.

Am I missing something here?