Sort Order on Merge documents

OK. I have a group in address book. It shows alpha order on surname.
I do a merge with Pages and send to the printer and get documents out in no sensible order.
This has probably been answered lots before but I can't find it on a search.
Anyone know how to control the Pages merge output order ?
Regards
Eric

I had the same problem. Here is how I got my mail merge to merge sorted.
In Address Book I created a group with all the addresses I wanted to use. Then I clicked on that group and did a select all. Then I dragged and drop the addresses onto my pages document and it created a sorted mail merge.

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