Address book field, multiple address merge on one page.

OK, after spending half a day tying to resolve this issue, I have given up. I do need to do this one way or another. Appreciate any help at hand.
I need to create a list of company info from address book into pages. problem is if I 'insert address book field' say 'company name' twice and do a merge, Pages drag the same name in twice and not the next address merge. but does put it on the next page, no good need at least 5 different address on one page.
Guy

You are responsible of the spent time.
Pages never claims that it is designed to fill pages with different labels.
It claims that it is able to merge address in documents which is definitely not the same thing.
The Apple's tool dedicated to label printing is AddressBook.
The one dedicated to merge from AddressBook is Pages.
Details available in PDF User Guide page 217
and in the Help's page entitled: "Using Address Book Fields" (I got it searching for "merge").
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 14 août 2008 15:09:28)

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Okay, here goes...
I have created a template page in Pages so that I can print out some laser address labels and utilise the merge address book fields to speed up the process, but I have hit a problem.
The template that I have created has 21 text boxes with address fields applied, so I thought I would end up with 21 different addresses on one page.
Wrong! I have ended up with hundreds of pages with 21 of the same address per page, when really I want there to be 21 different addresses per page.
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The template that I have created has 21 text boxes with address fields applied, so I thought I would end up with 21 different addresses on one page.
You thought wrongly
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You just didn't read sufficiently carefully the Help.
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