If you are seeing this in the merge document press ALT+F9 to toggle the
display, however if you merge to a new document the field content is
replaced by the data and so the problem should not exist.

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> I am doing the mail merging of letters step by step and after saving
> the letters when I reopen the individual letters, the fields I have
> merged in the letter from excel sheet appears only for a second.
> After a second only the placeholders of the merged field remains in
> the letter and the actual data does not appears. Please have some
> solution of this problem