Is "mail merge" supported by Pages 5.5.2?

I want to enter text in a Numbers spreadsheet and then "merge" it into a Pages text doc to create a customized form letter. I used to do this in MS Office using the "mail merge" function. Does Pages 5.5.2 support this?

Emily,
Pages v5 (any version) does not provide built-in mail merge functionality. Apple's answer to this is that they provided AppleScript hooks that one can use to program their own mail merge functionality. That is a bit of a stretch for most Pages users. However, a downloadable mail merge solution for Pages v5 has been done for you via this recent post.

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     Should i seek a Microsoft program to resolve this issue, because the new version of pages simply will not cut it without these necessary features.

If you have the previous version of Number and Pages you can still use those applications to perform a mail merge. Neither the previous version nor the latest version support mass emailing. There are other applications that can do that.
Using my favorite search engine I was able to identify several services that can perform a mass email campaign:
I used the search term: "mass email service"

Can you make a mail merge from a page layout? I can successfully do so from the word processing section of pages

I am trying to mailmerge to a form and need to center certain sections on the same line. Impossible to accomplish in the word processing portion because it wants to center the entire line. I would like to use the page layout section but the "enter merge field" is gray.
I have been able to accomplish the task using Filemaker but some of my constituents do not have Filemaker and I would like to make a template for them to use with numbers, excel,etc.

Can't see what Layout mode could possibly offer that you don't have in Word Processing mode.
Tried using centre tabs? You are using tabs, and not just hammering away at the spacebar?
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How do I do a mail merge from contacts to Pages?

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There is no built-in mail merge feature with Pages v5. Apple only supports mail merge if you are willing to either create your own AppleScript application or use pre-written AppleScript solutions. Examples are here and here. Pages community discussions about these are here by the developer.
If you are unwilling to do engage in AppleScript, then fall back and use Pages '09 v4.3.

Mail merge in Pages using Address Book - problem with fields

I am a fan of using the many of the Mac OS, iLife and other Apple applications together and just purchased iWork '09. I'd never done mail merges in previous versions of Pages, but I decided to try today with my Address Book data. I stumbled across some problems related to Address Book that have bothered me for some time and wonder if there is a simple go-around. Many of the cards in my Address Book have more than one line in the street address field. For example, they have street and street number in one line and the apartment number in the second. When Pages encounters such vCards in my Address Book, it doesn't know what to do and skips the next line of the address, which includes city, state and zipcode. I have also altered my Address Book template to include such things as the person's college (as I work with lots of college students), but this field is not recognized in Pages' mail merge feature. So, if I put the college name at the beginning of the street field in Address Book (which is what I have done until today), I can get excellent mail labels to print from Address Book, but I now I realize that this causes the mail merge problems in Pages described above. If I list the college elsewhere in the vCard, such as under the guise of "department" (an accepted field for mail merge in Pages), I lose the ability to get accurate mail labels in Address Book. Any ideas?

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Why doesn't mail merge in Pages reflect changes made to the numbers source document?

When using mail merge in a Pages envelope document, changes made to its Numbers address source document are not reflected. I have to create a whole new Pages envelope document and choose the Numbers address source document merge fields all over again.
I never had any trouble doing this with Word and Exell!
What am I doing wrong?

Denney,
Mail Merge from Numbers works just as you are trying to use it.
You create a Numbers document with the proper layout for merging.
Enter the data in teh numbers document and Save it.
You create a Pages Document to merge into and create the links to the Numbers document.
You Edit > Mail Merge in Pages.
To merge again from the Numbers document, make the necessary edits, Save the Numbers document and do the mail merge again in the Pages document that you created for that purpose. The only problem that normally arises is that we forget to Save the Numbers document after editing.
Jerry

How do I mail merge from multiple Numbers sheets into a single Pages doc?

I am trying to mail merge in a Pages doc with more than one Numbers file as a source.
I am unable to do this, because the target fields only reference a single Numbers sheet. Fields needed from other Numbers sheets to populate my Pages doc show up as 'untargeted' and the merge attempt fails.
Can anyone help?
Thanks!

shefletch wrote:
I am trying to mail merge in a Pages doc with more than one Numbers file as a source.
I am unable to do this, because the target fields only reference a single Numbers sheet. Fields needed from other Numbers sheets to populate my Pages doc show up as 'untargeted' and the merge attempt fails.
The User Guide is clear: we may merge from ONE Numbers table.
Reorganize your datas so that they are available to the merge process from the first table of the first sheet of the used document.
External references are your friends to do that.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 9 septembre 2009 18:01:34

Apple updated Pages again but they seem to forget Mail Merge option which is significantly a life saver. Do they have any intentions to put this back again?

I don't understand why Apple discarded Mail Merger option in Pages. This is a lifesaver option which definitely saves the user's time in completing documents easily instead of doing it repeatedly.

Then don't put up with it. Pages 5 has over 90 other features removed:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=b14426a2c5af2 65f2213d98ee45f08d7&mforum=iworktipsntrick
Pages '09 should still be in your Applications/iWork folder.
Export your Pages 5 files to Pages '09 or Word .docx and trash/archive Pages 5.
Then rate/review Pages 5 in the App Store.
Peter

AppleScript for mail merge

What is AppleScript for mail merge

AppleScript is a programming language that is tied to certain Applications that support it. Pages v5.5.1 has a scripting dictionary of the terms it will support via AppleScript. Apple's answer to not including Mail Merge functionality in Pages v5.5.1 is for individual users to roll their own, download an example and adapt it, or use another application with built-in Mail merge features.
See my previous post to you.

Mail merge from numbers

Hi there,
I'm trying to create a mail merge using an address spreadsheet created in Numbers and then trying to merge it into Pages.
I'ne taken all the necessary steps, selecting the source, selecting the merge fields etc etc and when I get to the final step the Mail Merge option in Pages in greyed out. I am thinking the Pages is prompting me to take another step but I'm not sure what that next step is. I've watched the video on the Apple support site and followed every step carefully.
If anyone here can help I would very much appreciate it.
Cheers
Morgan

You need to designate a row as a header row in the Numbers table. Imported spreadsheets don't mark the first row as a header row. If the top row does contain the labels, hover the cursor over the row number, click the down-facing arrow that appears & choose convert to header row.
If you don't have a row with labels to convert, add a header row using the Table menu or click the icon (middle icon) in the format bar then type in the labels.

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"Mail" Merge for data labels

I wish to use an Avery template to define the layout of a page and than populate the cells with data merged in from Numbers.
I can get the Avery template to work fine
I can get the first cell to populate with the first row of my Numbers Document/Table.
But the Mail Merge feature of Pages wants to make each row of the Numbers Table a different page instead of the next cell of the template.
How do I tell Pages to increment the row it is merging from from cell to cell instead of from page to page?

Richard,
That's the only way Pages will operate in a Merge, one record of the Numbers table per Section of the Pages document. It's pretty easy to use Find/Replace to delete all the Section Breaks and collapse the Pages document to one Section.
I don't know which Avery template you are using, so you're on your own on matching the layouts. Here's the basic plan:
Set the Pages document to have as many columns in the text layer as there are columns of labels.
Insert a Text Box and set the borders to None. Make sure the Text Box is Inline.
Put your merge field in the Text Box.
Set up the Merge link to the Numbers doc.
Size the Text Box to match the label size.
Edit > Mail Merge
Find/Replace Advanced. Find Section Break, Replace with nothing.
Replace All.
Now you may have to adjust margins and text box size to get it perfect.
Here are screen shots of the components:
Jerry

I am trying to mail merge a document but the inspector icon has gone missing

I am trying to perform a mail merge with a pages document but the inspector icon has gone missing

Jerrold
That keyboard shortcut is for Pages '09.
jackahirst
Inspector > Link > Merge
but you need to have inserted merge fields into your document.
Menu > Insert > Merge Filed/Sender Field
Peter

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I have "Automatically detect e-mail and web addresses" selected, but they don't come out live. Even if I save to a PDF they aren't live. Using the Inspector if I go to Hyperlinks and choose Enable as Hyperlink, and Link to Email Message, it will do that, but it seems to want to create an e-mail addressed to me; I can't get it to address it to the person whose e-mail address it is. If I delete my name, it creates a link that simply opens a blank e-mail.
At this point I'm stuck! It seems like that should be the default behavior, but nothing I do gets it to happen! Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter

This simple script activates the merged links for you.
--[SCRIPT activatemergedhyperlinks]
Enregistrer le script en tant que Script : activatemergedhyperlinks.scpt
déplacer le fichier ainsi créé dans le dossier
<VolumeDeDémarrage>:Users:<votreCompte>:Library:Scripts:Applications:Pages:
Il vous faudra peut-être créer le dossier Pages et peut-être même le dossier Applications.
Exécuter le processus de fusion de données afin d’insérer les hyperliens dans le document Pages.
Aller au menu Scripts , choisir Pages puis choisir activatemergedhyperlinks
Le script retire les return de la fin des paragraphes commençant par "http"
puis il 'tape' un caractère return pour remplacer celui qui vient d'être ôté
et surtout activer l’hyperlien.
--=====
L’aide du Finder explique:
L’Utilitaire AppleScript permet d’activer le Menu des scripts :
Ouvrez l’Utilitaire AppleScript situé dans le dossier Applications/AppleScript.
Cochez la case "Afficher le menu des scripts dans la barre de menus".
Sous 10.6.x,
aller dans le panneau "Général" du dialogue Préférences de l’Éditeur Applescript
puis cocher la case "Afficher le menu des scripts dans la barre des menus".
--=====
Save the script as a Script: activatemergedhyperlinks.scpt
Move the newly created file into the folder:
<startup Volume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Scripts:Applications:Pages:
Maybe you would have to create the folder Pages and even the folder Applications by yourself.
Apply the Merge process to insert Hyperlinks in thev document.
Go to the Scripts Menu, choose Pages, then choose "activatemergedhyperlinks".
The script removes the character return from end of paragraphs starting with "http"
then it 'type' a return character which will replace the removed one and activate the link.
--=====
The Finder’s Help explains:
To make the Script menu appear:
Open the AppleScript utility located in Applications/AppleScript.
Select the "Show Script Menu in menu bar" checkbox.
Under 10.6.x,
go to the General panel of AppleScript Editor’s Preferences dialog box
and check the “Show Script menu in menu bar” option.
--=====
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)
2010/10/27
--=====
on run
my activateGUIscripting()
tell application "Pages" to tell document 1
set les_paragraphes to paragraphs
set indexde_la_fin_duparagraphe to 0
repeat with un_paragraphe in les_paragraphes
set indexde_la_fin_duparagraphe to indexde_la_fin_duparagraphe + (length of un_paragraphe)
if contents of un_paragraphe starts with "http" then
try
select character indexde_la_fin_duparagraphe of body text
my raccourci("Pages", "x", "c") (* Cut the return at end of paragraph *)
my raccourci("Pages", return, "") (* 'Type' a return to activate the hyperlink *)
end try
end if
end repeat
end tell
end run
--=====
on activateGUIscripting()
(* to be sure than GUI scripting will be active *)
tell application "System Events"
if not (UI elements enabled) then set (UI elements enabled) to true
end tell
end activateGUIscripting
--=====
This handler may be used to 'type' text, invisible characters if the third parameter is an empty string.
It may be used to 'type' keyboard raccourcis if the third parameter describe the required modifier keys.
I changed its name « shortcut » to « raccourci » to get rid of a name conflict in Smile.
on raccourci(a, t, d)
local k
tell application a to activate
tell application "System Events" to tell application process a
set frontmost to true
try
t * 1
if d is "" then
key code t
else if d is "c" then
key code t using {command down}
else if d is "a" then
key code t using {option down}
else if d is "k" then
key code t using {control down}
else if d is "s" then
key code t using {shift down}
else if d is in {"ac", "ca"} then
key code t using {command down, option down}
else if d is in {"as", "sa"} then
key code t using {shift down, option down}
else if d is in {"sc", "cs"} then
key code t using {command down, shift down}
else if d is in {"kc", "ck"} then
key code t using {command down, control down}
else if d is in {"ks", "sk"} then
key code t using {shift down, control down}
else if (d contains "c") and (d contains "s") and d contains "k" then
key code t using {command down, shift down, control down}
else if (d contains "c") and (d contains "s") and d contains "a" then
key code t using {command down, shift down, option down}
end if
on error
repeat with k in t
if d is "" then
keystroke (k as text)
else if d is "c" then
keystroke (k as text) using {command down}
else if d is "a" then
keystroke k using {option down}
else if d is "k" then
keystroke (k as text) using {control down}
else if d is "s" then
keystroke k using {shift down}
else if d is in {"ac", "ca"} then
keystroke (k as text) using {command down, option down}
else if d is in {"as", "sa"} then
keystroke (k as text) using {shift down, option down}
else if d is in {"sc", "cs"} then
keystroke (k as text) using {command down, shift down}
else if d is in {"kc", "ck"} then
keystroke (k as text) using {command down, control down}
else if d is in {"ks", "sk"} then
keystroke (k as text) using {shift down, control down}
else if (d contains "c") and (d contains "s") and d contains "k" then
keystroke (k as text) using {command down, shift down, control down}
else if (d contains "c") and (d contains "s") and d contains "a" then
keystroke (k as text) using {command down, shift down, option down}
end if
end repeat
end try
end tell
end raccourci
--=====
--[/SCRIPT]
CAUTION, it assumes that the links are paragraphs of their own:
starts as 1st char of a paragraph
ends just before a return character.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 28 octobre 2010 11:44:37

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