"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

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