Okay finally solved it. The excel had the email saved in an unacceptable format; I had to re-run and prepare the excel file used for the dataset pulled into the mail merge. Thank you for all your help!
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I would first try to find where the three extra variables came from.
Usually that is sign of a misspelled variable name or missing semi-colon that causes the code result in new variables being created.
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