Why doesn't mail merge in Pages reflect changes made to the numbers source document?

When using mail merge in a Pages envelope document, changes made to its Numbers address source document are not reflected.  I have to create a whole new Pages envelope document and choose the Numbers address source document merge fields all over again.
I never had any trouble doing this with Word and Exell!  
What am I doing wrong?

Denney,
Mail Merge from Numbers works just as you are trying to use it.
You create a Numbers document with the proper layout for merging.
Enter the data in teh numbers document and Save it.
You create a Pages Document to merge into and create the links to the Numbers document.
You Edit > Mail Merge in Pages.
To merge again from the Numbers document, make the necessary edits, Save the Numbers document and do the mail merge again in the Pages document that you created for that purpose. The only problem that normally arises is that we forget to Save the Numbers document after editing.
Jerry

Similar Messages

  • What WordStar 3.01 can do in Mail Merge that Pages '09 can't.

    I have a Bento database. I want to print contra dances from it on 3x5 index cards. I can save the database as a Numbers worksheet with all the data I want on it. I SHOULD be able to use the fields from that Numbers file to create a Pages document that merges, using that data, to print on the index cards.
    Meanwhile, Apple apparently thinks that addresses are the only kind of data anybody could ever want to merge in a document. This is a stupid limit. Your programmers are unnecessarily standing between me and a reasonable expectation of what your software ought to do.
    I could do this in WordStar in the mid 1980s on a Commodore 128 running CP/M. I could do it in WordPerfect under DOS. I can do it in Word in Windows, and I HATE Windows.
    Why can't I do it in Pages on my Mac?

    Sarris2 wrote:
    I hacked my way to the answer before reading your good advice. I see three problems here:
    1. As you say, the tutorial materials are vague and fail to explain how the feature works or how to get to the feature.
    Agreed
    2. The "Edit:Merge" menu option is greyed out until you add a Merge Field, so you can't connect to a Numbers data source until AFTER you have chosen your first Merge field, which presumes you are using the address book, so the first field has to be an Address Book field even if the eventual document doesn't have any Address Book fields in it.
    No.
    Have you tried my instructions?
    All you need is a Numbers spreadsheet with the appropriate headers in it. Link to that and then you can merge to those revealed headers.
    3. There is apparently a "magic number" bug in Mail Merge in Pages. Since I couldn't connect to a data source until after inserting the first Address Book field and I was working with bad advice from the tutorial, I inserted 14 fields, creating my own cross-reference table in a separate document to tell me which Address Book Field to map each Numbers file Merge Field to.
    Again, why are you insisting on barking up the wrong tree, and arguing with the koalas that they aren't pandas?
    When I actually got around to mapping the fields, I hit the magic number 13 and instead of seeing Numbers fields to map to, I saw Address Book fields again. I tried deleting the field and creating a new one and got a repeat of the Edit:Merge window now pointing to the Address Book. When I once again pointed it to the Numbers file, all the fields I had mapped changed their names to the actual Numbers fields, and when I went to create the new field, the list of choices were from the Numbers file instead of the Address Book.
    Haven't a clue what this is supposed to mean, and why you are still futzing about in Address Book.
    So, I got what I wanted, though I wasted a lot of time unnecessarily using Address Book fields and remapping them to the Numbers fields, and I'm still hampered by the lack of Conditional Merge Fields. From Bento, I have a field named "Becket" that has either a "0" or a "1". I'd like to type the word "Becket" on the card if it is "1" and not type anything if it is "0". I could do that in Wordstar, etc.
    Why?
    It seems that in Pages, I have to tweak the data itself, wrestling with Numbers to replace all "1"s in that column with "Becket" and replace all the "0"s with empty cells. It's a lot more of a tedious process in Numbers than it would be if I just had a conditional Merge field.
    Can't follow what this has to do with a simple merge which is where you started.
    Peter

  • Mail merge in Pages using Address Book - problem with fields

    I am a fan of using the many of the Mac OS, iLife and other Apple applications together and just purchased iWork '09. I'd never done mail merges in previous versions of Pages, but I decided to try today with my Address Book data. I stumbled across some problems related to Address Book that have bothered me for some time and wonder if there is a simple go-around. Many of the cards in my Address Book have more than one line in the street address field. For example, they have street and street number in one line and the apartment number in the second. When Pages encounters such vCards in my Address Book, it doesn't know what to do and skips the next line of the address, which includes city, state and zipcode. I have also altered my Address Book template to include such things as the person's college (as I work with lots of college students), but this field is not recognized in Pages' mail merge feature. So, if I put the college name at the beginning of the street field in Address Book (which is what I have done until today), I can get excellent mail labels to print from Address Book, but I now I realize that this causes the mail merge problems in Pages described above. If I list the college elsewhere in the vCard, such as under the guise of "department" (an accepted field for mail merge in Pages), I lose the ability to get accurate mail labels in Address Book. Any ideas?

    Page's Mail Merge doesn't show up any "Custom" fields in its list?

  • Why doesn't Mail for IOS show sent items?

    Why doesn't Mail for IOS show sent items with an IMAP server account. Everything else works okay but there is two sent directories and no contant in any of them ...
    Trouble is the same in both iPhone4 and iPad.
    Exactly the same account shows everything on my Macintosh. Including Sent items.

    Using the method described above I see outgoing messages that were sent from Mail on my iMac in the correct mailboxes for 2 different MobileMe accounts.
    You seem to be having and issue where your database/setting are corrupted if your messages are in the wrong outbox. I would suggest deleting the accounts from your iPad and the reconfiguring them.
    While viewing an email at the top of the screen, left of the trash icon, you should se a Folder icon. Click on that to send the message to another folder. Page 59 of the manual http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/ipad_2_user_guide.pdf
    Message was edited by: J D Knight III (fixed page number)

  • Why does a mail-merge in MS Publisher split into multiple files when printed as a pdf file?

    Why does a mail-merge in MS Publisher split into multiple files when printed as a pdf file?

    'Cuz that's what mail merges do.  They create multiple documents based on the parent doc and all the names/addresses in your data tables.
    Perhaps if you describe exactly what you're trying to do & why you need PDF, we can point you to relevant tutorials.
    Nancy O.

  • How do you create a mail merge in Pages on Mavericks?

    How do you create a mail merge in Pages on Mavericks?

    Yeah, this and another 100 things Apple dropped.
    Rate/Review Pages 5 in the App Store.
    Peter

  • How do you mail merge in Pages 5.1?

    How do you mail merge in Pages 5.1?

    Apple has removed merging from Pages 5 along with over 100 other features:
    http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=b770b101a064d d0e553249a97fb7cddd&mforum=iworktipsntrick
    Pages '09 should still be in your Applications/iWork folder, use that.
    Peter

  • Mail Merge in Pages 09 - Merge option Greyed out in menu

    the Mail Merge choice in the edit menu is greyed out. I tried everything to resolve this issue (new document, etc). For some unknown reason, I cant mail merge in pages 09. Any suggestion will be very helpful.

    Hi c,
    Welcome to Apple Discussions and the Numbers '09 forum.
    Although you are probably asking about Merge from a Numbers document, you question really has to do with Pages, and the Pages '09 forum is likely a more appropriate place for it.
    Have you inserted any Merge Fields into the document? Until you enter the fields and specify a source, Merge will be grey.
    Regards,
    Barry

  • Why doesn't my phone charge? I changed the battery, now it won't charge at all and it's almost dead.. Any suggestions on how to fix it?

    Why doesn't my phone charge? I changed the battery, now it won't charge... Any suggestions on how to fix it?

    iMessage and FaceTime went down yesterday for some people. Mine is still down. My iMessage is saying the same thing about being activated. Sounds like you are still down too. Ignore the status page that says everything is fine - it lies.

  • Error Mail Merge Aborted due to error in creating the Mail Merge DataSource

    Dear All,
    please help me with this problem (Oracle release 12.0.4.)
    1. PROBLEM:
    When attempting to extract data, using Web ADI in HRMS, Word is selected as the viewer, but an Excel spreadsheet is generated rather than a MS Word document containing the data. Also error "Mail Merge Aborted due to error in creating the Mail Merge Data Source." appears on screen.
    We are using MS Office 2003.
    2. PROBLEM:
    Unable to create data source from HR form PAYWSLEE.
    We are using custom integrator. This integrator is attached to form function. Form function is attached to responsibility. We also created the layout.
    The next step would be to create data source from form PAYWSLEE, but we are not able to perform this...
    In release 11i we used this form (PAYWSLEE) to create datasource (for mailmerge), but in R12 this is not working... Something is missing here and I need your help to determine what. I checked the most documents on Oracle Support and didn't find solution for this problem...
    Please advise.
    Kind Regards,
    Andreja

    Hi all,
    Thanks for visiting our forum and sharing your experience here. It'll be benefited to our communicator.
    Have a good time.
    Regards,
    Thanks
    George Zhao
    Forum Support
    Come back and mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.
    If you have any feedback on our support, please click "[email protected]"

  • I have Lion on my laptop and I want to back up my calendar TO my iphone. Not the reverse. iCloud only goes from iphone to iCloud to mac not the other way. Also, why doesn't "sync" mean update most recent changes across all devices?

    I have Lion on my laptop and I want to back up my calendar TO my iphone. Not the reverse. iCloud only goes from iphone to iCloud to mac not the other way. Also, why doesn't "sync" mean update most recent changes across all devices? I thought that was the point of iCloud. Any suggestions since iCloud doesn't seem to work?

    It's a work computer so I wanted to save them to my iTunes so I can access from another computer.  Should I go to a home computer and just Import for best results?  If so how do I do this?  Also, why would I be synched with another library and how do I find out what this is?  Very new/green user here

  • I keep getting a warnin that my pages document could not be auto saved. The file has been changed by another application. Click save anyway to keep your changes and save the changes made by the other application as a version, or click revert to keep the c

    I keep getting a warning stating that the document could not be auto saved in pages. The file has been changed by another application. Then it says click save any way to keep your changes and save the changes made by the other application as a version, or click revert to keep the changes from the other application and save your changes to a version.
    What in the heck does all that mean, and why are they trying to behave like a Windows product or a Microsoft office product. I just don't get it.
    Why is another application changing my documents? It's like they've created a virus within their own programs. It's a pain in the neck and makes no sense.

    I am also having the issue of a warning saying "could not be auto-saved in Pages. The file has been changed in another application. I then hit "save anyway", the warning will go away for a time, sometimes minutes, sometimes hourr, but then the warming reapprears saying the same thing. This is not the case with all Pages documents but it is the case with many.
    Working with a Retina Macbook Pro and current software
    These are newly created documents

  • Why doesn't mail print the .ics details shown on screen?

    I have colleagues using outlook and I of course use mail.
    When they send me meeting requests I get a .ics file I can use in iCal.
    The details of the .ics file (e.g. agenda) displays OK in mail.
    But when I want to print the mail to take to the meeting, it just shows the .ics icon, nothing else.
    Browsing the discussions, this was a problem back in 2007 in Tiger, but fixed there and subsequently.
    Why have we got this "feature" back now in Lion? (The old fix - print from Get Info in iCal - doesn't work in Lion.  Must be the cheap leather finish)
    Any cures?

    Have you tried using the '''Print''' item at the bottom if that eBay page? <br />
    Or is that what you are using?
    Overall it isn't unusual for "print" to be a bit different than what shows on the "screen", that page may use @media for "screen" and for "print". The '''Print''' item on that page could be the difference, or the web browser might be following that code is you used the '''Print ''menu item or button''''' in Firefox. <br />
    http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/media.html#media-types
    Typically, the '''@print''' CSS code is used to hide navigation menu's ''(can't "navigate" to a different web page from a sheet of paper)'' and maybe advertisements ''(can't "click" on an ad that is on paper)'' from being printed out so that only the text of an article is printed to paper.
    Basically, it's probably not a fault with Firefox, but rather Firefox following the commands on the page put there by the person who authored that page, or a standard CSS "style sheet" used by eBay.

  • How to go to the next record during mail merge in Pages

    I'm trying to create a directory booklet using Pages and Numbers. I have names and addresses listed in rows in Numbers, and I'm trying to use Mail Merge to transfer the data to Pages. After the merge is complete, however, I'm left with one page per name/address, rather than one page with multiple addresses.
    Is there a way to resolve this? I'm not creating mailing labels, but it follows the same concept. Is it possible to insert some sort of "next record" field, so that the data moves to the next row in Numbers?
    Thanks for your help. I'm new to Pages and am feeling very frustrated!

    Cathy,
    Use Find and Replace to replace the Section Break character codes with nothing (empty replace field). The document will then collapse with as many records per page as will fit.
    Jerry

  • Mail merge in PAGES and NUMBERS has GONE!

    A while ago I painstakingly moved data and documents from Microsoft Excel 2008 for Mac to Numbers and from Word to Pages. I have been using Numbers for data lists and Pages for Mailmerge documents successfully since 2011.
    With the latest "update" to Pages and Numbers, I thought I would see improved software and performance. What I got was a downgrade in functionality.
    * Pages no longer supports mail merge
    ** Pages documents with mail merge fields are corrupted on opening them with the new version - SAVE THE ORIGINAL FIRST !
    * Numbers documents can no longer be used with the previous version of Pages to perform a mail merge - the headers are not being recognised!
    WORK AROUND
    Don't use the new Pages or Numbers.
    Keep your old Pages and Numbers documents in a safe folder.
    Use the prior versions of Pages and Numbers for mail merging (HOPEFULLY APPLE READS THIS AND PUTS MAIL MERGE BACK IN THE NEXT FIX)
    It is possible to maintain Numbers documents using the new version. This however necessitates saving your modified Numbers document in the old format (Save As...) before using it with the prior Pages version.
    @APPLE: PLEASE RECOGNISE THIS MAJOR PLANNING ERROR ON YOUR PART AND GIVE US THE FUNCTIONALITY BACK ASAP !!!

    I agree with Peter. This is NOT a forum for filing complaints directed at Apple. They do make that clear.
    Paul, I suggest you channel your frustration toward Apple at their Product Feedback page: http://www.apple.com/feedback/
    Mac

Maybe you are looking for