Mail Merge -  Generate Invoices

For a client, I'm transfering a WINDOWS-XP app. to a MAC PRO OS X (10.x). The
application uses MS-WORD mailmerge with a MYSQL table as datasource. I link to the MYSQl table using ODBC. I would like to use the PAGES mail-merge and a NUMBERS spreadsheet as datasource, since, at least to my knowledge, PAGES mail-merge can not connect with a MYSQL db. The number of invoices generated can range from 1 to many hundreds. Can PAGES somehow be linked directly to a MYSQL table - as datasource ?
thanks
mansail

The merge feature accepts only two sources of datas :
(1) AddressBook
(2) Numbers
To fit your needs you must grab the MYSQL table in a Numbers one.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 30 décembre 2009 22:12:59

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