I guess I have to buy MS Office now mail merge is gone in Pages?

Apple messed up Pages by removing mail merge. I used it a lot to import excel address spreadsheets and print labels and envelopes. I hate that I have to buy MSOffice to get the job done with all I have invested in Apple. Any ideas before I give MS $99?
Thanks

If Pages won't do it and if you don't want to buy MS Office, you might want to try LibreOffice. It's free and I think it has mail merge but don't know for sure. http://www.libreoffice.org

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Does anyone know if pages get an update soon with mail merge? ore do i have to buy open office?

does anyone know if pages get an update soon with mail merge? ore do i have to buy open office?

Apple has not made worthwhile changes to Pages v5 for nearly 18 months, so it is unlikely that they will have a surge of conscience over missing features.
If you have an iWork '09 DVD, and the Apple 9.3 updater, use that as it has mail merge and 100+ additional features built-in. Otherwise, you can download LibreOffice, or OpenOffice (order by functionality) Office suites for free. I use LibreOffice myself.

Office 2010 mail merge with section breaks printing problem

Afternoon all,
We have an issue and I was wondering if anyelse has come across this and has a solution
Our office staff do many mail merges and once the merge is complete they then can print the whole document with no problems or select one page and do print current page. The problem occurs when trying to print a range i.e. pages 5-7. Once you click print nothing happens, no errors and nothing comes out the printer.
What I have found is that the mail merge is putting in section breaks between each page to seperate them but if I change these to page breaks in the document then I can select pages 5-7 and it prints with no problems.
So the only solution I have found so far is to do a find/replace and find all ^b (section break) and replace with ^m (page break). This is obvioulsy takes more time and is a pain if we have to do this for every mail merge.
I can't find any setting in the mail merge to tell it to use page breaks instead of sections breaks
Has anyone else come across this probem, is it a office bug ???
Any help would be great
Darren

John,
Replying to your posts works just fine. You can choose to reply to either of the other posts & address both in your comments just as you did. I see quite a few threads where the OP (original poster) posts a reply to each & every one who has replied. I think it makes it very difficult to find the actual answers.

Excel doc created on PC, edited on my Mac, sent back to PC won't print properly. Do I have to buy Microsoft office for Mac?

I have to complete their Excel form, send back, they add to it, they want to print it and say it won't print as I see it. I don't want to buy Microsoft office for Mac just for this... any ideas?

Welcome to Apple Discussions
A couple of ideas... when you exported the document did you check "do compatibility check" for Word? If not that's probably it. Other solutions: - OpenOffice, or NeoOffice play well with MS Word. Either of them are free downloads.

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Dear Experts,
I tried to search for mail merge interface in forums, could not find any.
Anybody please help in implementing the interface. If you have any sample code, please provide me.
Thank you in advance,
Regards
Jagadish

Hello Nisha,
I have found that solution two days ago, and I am now using it, however I still have some problems with the OLE 'Save' method, I am using 'SaveAs' as an alternative solution.
My objective is:
1. Open an existing Excel document to make some changes on the main sheet;
2. Copy the main sheet to two new sheets;
3. Work on the two new sheets;
4. Insert a final sheet;
5. Save the document.
What I could do so far:
1. Open an existing Excel document (Xls1), with DOI, and change the main sheet;
1.1 Save the document with another name (Xls2), using DOI 'Save_As' method, followed by 'close_document' and 'release_document';
2. Open this last document again (Xls2) with OLE, and copy the main sheet to two new sheets;
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3. Open this last document (Xls3) with DOI, and work on the two new sheets;
4. Insert a final sheet;
5. Save the document (Xls3) with DOI method 'Save_document_to_url' and exit.
In the end I have one more file than I needed, but it's the possible solution for now.
Do you have any idea why the OLE 'Save' does not work after closing a document with DOI?
Thanks in advance.

Have tried many times to do mail merge from csv file but not working have watched all u tube vids!! Please help thank you

I've downloaded Thunderbird and have imported all emails etc - works great!
BUT when I try to do a mail merge it doesn't work! I've saved my excel file as cvs and understand that I need to use {{Email}} , {{First Name}} etc
It just doesn't work for me - no emails in outbox or sent items?
any ideas please?

can you confirm a few things?
You downloaded 'Mail Merge' and it is displayed in the Thunderbird 'Addon Manager' and it is enabled.
Open the .csv file and checked that the info you are entering in the Write message eg: {{Email}} , {{First Name}} etc is the same as the column headers.
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{{Email}} OR {{Primary Email}}
you can edit the .csv file to change eg: {{Primary Email}} to {{Email}}
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I have a user who sends out mailings several times a week using a Microsoft Word Mailmerge.
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The Mail Merge was created using a different computer/user.
I have not attempted to create another mail merge from his account; I will try this and get back.
I have compared the options/settings from that and another user as I stated above.
Which registry keys would I import? I don't want to go importing keys and have it break something else.
They are not any add-ins on either PC that are different from each other; and as I stated above I have tried starting it in safe mode.
Anti-Virus is up to date; Also I even disabled the Anti-Virus to see if that changed anything, and it did not.
I will try creating a new mail-merge to see if somehow it creates a settings somewhere that will allow it.

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I have office 2004. what do i have to buy, download, install to open and edit pptx, docx and xlsx files?

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