Office 2007 Mail Merge: How do I view field names instead of data?

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Published on 2011-01-17T13:03:32Z Indexed on 2011/01/17 13:55 UTC
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I've just received a document which forms the basis of a mail merge as an attachment and I need to view the field names like they display in 2003 with the double chevrons e.g.

<<titles>><<initials>><<surname>>

However even though I get a dialogue as I open the docx file saying that it is going to attempt to merge from a file (which I don't have) and I cancel that operation the document still displays merge data e.g.

Mr A Test

Instead of the field names. I have clicked on the fields which turn grey to demonstrate that they are fields but I can't find a way to make it display the field names not the data. I don't even know where it's getting the data from as I don't have the data source file for the document to use.

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