Creating mailing labels using merge with Pages

Something I can do easily in Word seems impossible in Pages 09 (which I've begun using full time instead of Word and find it much more stable and easy to work with).
I have a postcard size document which fits on a third of an 81/2 X 11 page. So I have three repeats on the page. Follow so far?
I want to merge people's names into the postcard - three different names on a page. What I can't figure out is how to tell the merge to go to the next records for the second and third cards on each page! Easy to do in Word - I just drag and drop <Next Record> before the merge fields forpostcards 2 & 3.
There doesn't seem to be that possibility in Pages. I get three postcards the same on each page - the next three (the second record) all the same on the second page, and so on for each subsequent page. I don't want three identical postcards per page! I want cards with three different names on the same page.
Does anybody have an idea how this might be done or do I just do it in Word?

Peter
I was able to track down the script. Thanks.
Definitely a complicated way of doing something that's relatively straightforward in Word. Guess I'll have to stick to Word for creating these kinds of merge documents! Too bad, really.
Judith

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