Print Merge malfunction in Pages

I have encountered a problem with the PrintMerge or MailMerge function in Pages - Numbers.
I am using Pages - Numbers to create a template for producing legal documents relating to real estate transfers.  A Pages document serves as the template and a Numbers document supplies the merge information.
In one document, under construction, the print merge does not work for some fields and (because of this?) other information is not displayed correctly.  By 'does not work' I mean that the MergeField is placed in the document, but after using the Edit/Merge function, no information is merged. 
Also, other information, following the non-working fields ('following' meaning that the fileds are displayed to the right of the non-working fields in Numbers) is not displayed correctly.  Information for Numbers fields TO THE RIGHT of the non-working fields is displayed, but incorrectly shows the information for the 3rd field to the right of the correct information.  The error is consistent.  
Of note, there are three (3) fields that do not display information.  The shift is 3 places to the right, and happens for fields located to the right of the location of these 3 non-woking fields.
Significantly, I think, is the fact that when the three fields that do not display information are dragged to the right, to the right edge of the spreadsheet, the other fields then display correctly in merged documents.
I looks as if something about these three non-displaying fields causes the mail/print merge routine to skip past them, and the next available information is then displayed, causing the fields to display 'shifted data'.
There is nothing I can see that is odd about the name or function of these three fields.  I have tried different names and have tried deleting and rebuilding them.  They are all computed fields which calculate days elapsed.  Thinking that perhaps this was the cause, I created text fields into which I placed the information - just text and no computation - with the same (non) result.
This is fortunately just three fields, and I can build a work-around for them.  The program works consistently and I am confident that it will consistently produce the other merges.  But I am perplexed by this malfunction and can find no answer as of yet on my own.
I do think that this is a real issue.

Date objects won't merge properly. You haven't said what type of data you are merging, but I'm guessing to try to narrow down the field. If you convert your dates to Text fields, they will merge. A simple way to do this is to Concatenate a bit of text to the date. In this example, column B will merge; column A will not:
Jerry

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