Mail Merge from Numbers picks up wrong cell

I have a Numbers document with several tables (each in a different Sheet). The document was created by exporting data from ScrumWorks Pro into an excel document and than opened in Numbers. The data I use in the mail merge is in one of the tables. To prep the table for the merge, I set the top row of the one table to be a header row and save as a numbers document. Some of the columns in the table reference other tables in the document (for example = PBI::Table 1::C2).
In Pages, I use three of the columns as merge fields (column B - "Task Title", column F - "Original Estimates (hours), & column I - "PBI Title"). Column I is the one with references to the different table in the same document.
When I do the mail merge, the first page correctly gets the first two column, but not the third. The second page of the mail merge picks up column E instead of column B, column I instead of column F, and again not the third merge field. The third page of the mail merge picks up column N instead of column B, column H instead of column F, and again not the third merge field ... etc.
I am guessing that it wants/needs further modifications to the Numbers document to prepare it for the merge, but I am not sure what. Anyone have any ideas?

Not surprised at all.
You wrote that the column F contains hours values.
The truth is that it contain date_time values displaying only the time component.
The Mail merge hate this kind of data.
There is a simple workaround. Insert a new column just after column F.
In the new cell G2, insert the formula =""&F2
Apply Fill Down
In the Pages document, repose the field supposed to extract values from column F by one defined to extract from he new column G.
I'm quite sure that the merge feature will behave as you wish.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 28 mai 2011 21:31:37
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