Merge address book

Hi,
I have gym member cards in a business card format and I want to merge my address book names to my cards which I have found in Edit >Merge Address Cards, but when I do that it merges one name to the 8 cards on one page, so for 8 names it makes 8 pages, I would like that it merges a different name to each card because I have about 300 cards to make.
Thanks for your help

Hello
I repeat, the merge function does exactly what it is designed to.
It put infos grabbed from the database (here AddressBook) in a document whose size is at least one page.
I understood what you asked for but nobody can help you to force an application to do what it is not designed to do.
You would be able to do what you ask for with the DB modulus of AppleWorks but as iWork doesn't contain such a tool the feature is unavailable.
It's one of the problems which push me to ask for a true database at the bottom of all my messages.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 8 janvier 2008 17:40:40)

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