Pages merges address book cards, but in what kind of order?

This is crazy! If I open an envelope template and merge an Address Book group to a new document the order of the names is completely random. It is not in alphabetical order or any kind of order at all.
What gives?
If I go back through the envelopes to make sure they all printed correctly I have to sort them manually to see if any are missing.

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Merge Address Book Cards Greyed out

Hi all,
I've got an envelope that I use every once in a while. It has a logo and return address. For the recipient address, I just go to address book, change the information in the group that I call "current envelope" then I go to pages, merge and print.
However, last time I went to do this, it added the address that I wanted from the group, plus 3 other addresses (i don't know where they came from.) When I try to merge again with the address book to refresh the data, the Merge Address Book Cards option is grey. What is going on?
Thanks for any help.

Hi Osvaldo
I can just confirm I had it once too. I just restarted. That solved it. But I always tought that is a Win solution If I can reproduce it I try to search why it happened.
But I have an other problem with mail merge:
If I merge more then 1 address it asks me if it shall put it in a new document. If it does so it removes all the empty fields. If you merge only 1 address it merges it always in the curent document and the empty fields stay. That still would be ok but they also print with the field name on the letters. Looks like a bug to me.
Sure I could remove the fields manually... but hey? Either it should give the possibility to merge it into a new document even with 1 address and remove the empty fields or keep it in the same document with the empty fields but shouldn't print them.
I think this are the small thing they will need to sort out over time (like that there is no possiblity to choose from "recent documents" in the open/create file wizard - if you close the wizard it closes Pages too. Or that after opening Pages without the wizard and choosin from the recent documents the blank document created automatically with the start up is not closed automatically if it wasn't edit before an other file was opened (yes , even MS has some smart tricks)).
Cheers
Petr

Merge Address Book Cards...

I have used this to print mailing addresses for my newsletter and everything works OK except that an extraneous comma is printed after the Zip code. I don't know where this is coming from nor do I know how to get rid of it.
Any suggestions?

This has been discussed many times in the forum. There are problems to have several different card on the same paper. There are work around if you search in the forum.
Also get the Pages User Guide for more information on how the app works. In Pages Help menu click on Pages User Guide.

Pages and address book

I am going to use the expense report template and modify it to be a point of sale invoice. What I want to do is to create a new address book contact for each customer and then be able to drag and drop in the address card into pages to fill out the same info on the invoice. It's not working... Is this possible or is there a different, better way to accomplish this? Thanks,
Zach_
G5 dual Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Zach_,
welcome to Apple Discussions.
I think Pages will only work this way:
* Choose "Insert/Address Book Field" for all fields you need. In Link inspector you can change the type (Name, Address, etc.) and field (First, Last, etc.) to what you need for your invoice.
* Create an Address Book group for the invoices. Add those customers to the group who should receive an invoice. The easiest way will probably be to create a smart group (e.g. Note contains "Invoice") and then add the word in the notes field and remove it after preparing the invoice.
* Then "Edit/Merge Address Book Cards…" and choose the (smart) group you created. Either print directly or add them to a new document (maybe for testing purposes).
If this information is useful to you, please mark it as "helpful" or "solved" using the little buttons in the titlebar of this message. Thank you.

"Address book card merge" in Pages '13

Has "address book card merge" been removed from Pages '13 features?

You can use the Contacts just like you could use the Address book for creating envelopes or labels.
Select the contacts you want to send to > Cmd + P for printing > Set which envelope you want to use. Print

Drag and drop an Address Book card onto a Pages address field

Whenever I "drag and drop" an Address Book card onto a Pages address field, it hangs for almost a minute before the address appears. I don't believe this is normal, does anyone else have this problem?

Sounds like you "upgraded" to Pages 5.
Apple has removed over 90 features from Pages 5.
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=3527487677f0c 6fa05b6297cd00f8eb9&mforum=iworktipsntrick
Pages '09 should still be in your Applications/iWork folder.
Archive/trash Pages 5, after Exporting your files to Pages '09, and rate/review it in the App Store, then get back to work.
Peter

How to merge address book fields

Okay, here goes...
I have created a template page in Pages so that I can print out some laser address labels and utilise the merge address book fields to speed up the process, but I have hit a problem.
The template that I have created has 21 text boxes with address fields applied, so I thought I would end up with 21 different addresses on one page.
Wrong! I have ended up with hundreds of pages with 21 of the same address per page, when really I want there to be 21 different addresses per page.
What am I doing wrong here? Can Pages handle this kind of thing as I know that it works perfectly for letters where you would only have one address per page.
Please help
Regards
jim

jim_78 wrote:
The template that I have created has 21 text boxes with address fields applied, so I thought I would end up with 21 different addresses on one page.
You thought wrongly
Wrong! I have ended up with hundreds of pages with 21 of the same address per page, when really I want there to be 21 different addresses per page.
This is the normal behavior
It's perfectly described in the Help which states:
Inserting Recipient Data for Contacts in Multiple Cards
You can personalize a document for multiple recipients by using multiple Address Book cards.
To insert recipient data for contacts in multiple cards:
Open a document that contains recipient fields.
Select the Address Book cards you want to use, and then drag them to a recipient field.
In the dialog that appears, choose New Document from the pop-up menu to create a new document that contains a section for each contact. Otherwise, choose “Send to printer” from the pop-up menu _to print a personalized copy of the document for each contact._
What am I doing wrong here? Can Pages handle this kind of thing as I know that it works perfectly for letters where you would only have one address per page.
You just didn't read sufficiently carefully the Help.
Pages is not designed to do what you want.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 10 octobre 2008 16:53:19)

How to merge address book

How do I merge the Address Book on my iMac and the Contacts on my iPhone 4 into one list with everything? I have had the iPhone for a month now and have not synced it with the iMac yet.

jim_78 wrote:
The template that I have created has 21 text boxes with address fields applied, so I thought I would end up with 21 different addresses on one page.
You thought wrongly
Wrong! I have ended up with hundreds of pages with 21 of the same address per page, when really I want there to be 21 different addresses per page.
This is the normal behavior
It's perfectly described in the Help which states:
Inserting Recipient Data for Contacts in Multiple Cards
You can personalize a document for multiple recipients by using multiple Address Book cards.
To insert recipient data for contacts in multiple cards:
Open a document that contains recipient fields.
Select the Address Book cards you want to use, and then drag them to a recipient field.
In the dialog that appears, choose New Document from the pop-up menu to create a new document that contains a section for each contact. Otherwise, choose “Send to printer” from the pop-up menu _to print a personalized copy of the document for each contact._
What am I doing wrong here? Can Pages handle this kind of thing as I know that it works perfectly for letters where you would only have one address per page.
You just didn't read sufficiently carefully the Help.
Pages is not designed to do what you want.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 10 octobre 2008 16:53:19)

Adding an Address Book card from a shared address book to a Group

I have an Address Book Sharing Question/Problem. With the .Mac Family Pack, I have multiple .Mac Accounts. I have set up Address Book to share addresses from the individual .Mac accounts and set each to be able to edit the shared addresses. Initially, I was hoping that these would appear in each users Address Book and sync all changes, instead of just appearing as a shared Address Book below the users Address Book. But that does not appear to be the case.
However, my question/problem is that I want to be able to add a card from a shared Address Book (for example from my wife’s Address Book) into a current group in my Address Book (say a family member group). I can drag the card in, but the information is apparently copied as a new card into my Address Book and changes I make are no longer synced with the shared Address Book (my Wife’s Address Book). Is this working correctly? (I know .Mac has been acting up in the last few weeks) If so, there does not appear to be much value in say sharing family, doctor, and friends info from my wife’s address book, as I can not create my own groups or if I do, our contact info is no longer synced. The new cards I copy in are also not visible to the shared Address Book, so we will also have no way of seeing that a card has been changed. Is there anyway to truly share a card or group of contacts between users of separate .Mac accounts so that the contacts can be separated into different groups for each user and card info / changes will remain synced? If this is already supposed to be occurring, any ideas as to a fix?
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Also, if I drag an entire group from a shared Address Book to my Address Book, it is copied in a blue color, making me think "Cool! It is different from a group that I create (which are white), so it must be shared!" But it is not. Changes to cards in this "copied" group are not synced to the original shared Address Book. So, what does the blue color mean?

Old Address Book Cards into New Address Book

Okay, so here's the problem:
I had the first IMac with the Isight camera and the CPU died. So, I had the data backed up to an external hard drive.
So now I have the new Imac and I still have the external hard drive and I've put MOST of my old data on the new computer...but I can't import my old address book cards. . And I need some of them!
Can anyone help?

Address Book data is stored in
Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/
Copy all the files in the AddressBook folder from your backup into your new iMac
Hope this helps

ICal can't see my Address Book card...

When I try to set an email alert to myself iCal tells me:
You must add your own card and email address in Address Book to be able to use mail alarms.
I have an Address Book card with my name on it and my email address. Is there some "offical" designation I need to set for it so that my Mac knows it's my card? Or is there an iCal setting that designates it as such?

I had the same issue. My iCal, Address Book and Mail all worked happily together until I migrated to a new MacBook Pro. Everything was working well until I tried to send an invitation from iCal to other users and I got the same message you did. I was irritated because I DID have a card that was identified as "my" card. But here was the catch: I use Entourage as my preferred email client and use "Mail" only when iCal sends an invitation to an event. Once I set up "Mail" on the new computer, iCal recognized my card and sent the invitation.

Sending Address Book cards to a Nextel i880

I've got a Motorola Nextel i880 phone that I'm trying to send Address Book cards to. My Mac can see and connect to the phone over Bluetooth, but the phone doesn't seem to want to talk to my Mac. I've tried using iSync, but apparently Apple doesn't support the i880 yet.
If you have any suggestions, thanks in advance for the help.
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I got a Samsung M610.

I have Mavericks on my iMac and the latest version of iPhoto 9.5.1 (902.17) but no book, card, calendar, album, slideshow, print and order prints options under Share, which still shows Set Desktop. Any ideas please?

I have Mavericks on my iMac and the latest version of iPhoto 9.5.1 (902.17) but no book, card, calendar, album, slideshow, print and order prints options under Share, which still shows Set Desktop. Any ideas please?

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Can MULTIPLE birthdays on Address Book card show up in iCal?

iCal 2.0.3 - I have a number of cards in my Address Book that list primary party, spouse and several children. I have created in Address Book on a single card a birthday field for EACH of the parties on an Address Book card. However, only the primary party's birthday automatically is transferred to the Birthday calendar in iCal.
The only way I have been able to have all the birthdays shown in iCal is to have a separate Address Book card for each member of the family. Obviously, this bloats the Address Book.
Is there any way that I can accomplish this with one Address Book card with multiple birthday fields?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Mac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

While you can't list multiple birthdays for multiple members of a family on a single card in Address Book and have them automatically added to the Birthday calendar in iCal, you can by using Dates to iCal donationware manually insert birthdays into the iCal Birthday calendar (http://www.nhoj.co.uk/)
This is great in that it keeps you from having to bloat your Address Book by unnecessarily creating a separate card for each additional member of a family, e.g.

Address book data but missing Address Book application

This is strange but after upgrading to Snow Leopard, I seem to be missing my Address Book application. I can see my address book data but I cannot launch the Address Book application.
I have my contacts synced with Mobile Me & I'm not sure where the app went. I can still sync but just can't open up the Address Book app (obviously)
I am not sure how to get my Address Book app back....any suggestions?

you don't need Pacifists for this one. insert the snow leopard DVD, open it in finder and double-click on optional installs->optional installs.mpkg. follow the instructions and choose to install Address Book. then reinstall 10.6.2 combo update to bring AB to its current version.

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