Iwork:Pages:Mail Merge:text boxes?

In iwork: I have in a Pages document, 20 (1 7/8" square) text boxes that I am trying to mail merge info from a Numbers document. I have tried linking the text boxes and when I click to mail merge the info so that each text box has info from a line in the Numbers doc. it won't work and ends up giving me many pages with just one text boxes with the info from my Numbers doc. Can anyone help? Is what I'm trying to do possible?

qgirl7 wrote:
In iwork: I have in a Pages document, 20 (1 7/8" square) text boxes that I am trying to mail merge info from a Numbers document. I have tried linking the text boxes and when I click to mail merge the info so that each text box has info from a line in the Numbers doc. it won't work and ends up giving me many pages with just one text boxes with the info from my Numbers doc. Can anyone help? Is what I'm trying to do possible?
QG,
You can do this with the addition of one simple step: Find and Replace.
I can't give you specific directions since I don't know what label layout you are using, and I'd rather leave that part to you anyway. A Mail Merge to Pages gives you one record per Section. To combine all the sections, all you need do is Find and Replace the Section Break characters and the 1-record per page document will collapse into multiple records per page, as many as will fit.
Here I have a small database for a team roster, in Numbers and I wish to print to labels in Pages.
Numbers doc looks like this:
And, Pages doc looks like this:
After the Merge, the first page of my new document has one record per page and looks like this:
To collapes the document, I bring up the Find and Replace panel:
Continue in next post...

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