Sal Soghoian

Q: Pages 5.5 Mail and Data Merge

Pages 5.5 includes new scripting support for locating and replacing text placeholders. In addition, text placeholders can be "tagged" in the application interface, with script identifiers by selecting the text placeholder to tag and entering its "script tag" in the the new Script Tag field available at the bottom of the More tab in the format sidebar. With this new ability, scripts can replace the text placeholders in a document with data from other sources, including Numbers spreadsheets.

 

But you don't have to write scripts to take advantage of this new feature!

 

To make it easy for non-scripters to perform Mail merges, and other automated data merging tasks, there is a free application, the Pages Data Merge application, available at: http://iworkautomation.com/pages/script-tags-data-merge.html

 

Watch the movie, follow the instructions, and give it a try!

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 2:43 PM

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  • by turlie,

    turlie turlie Aug 3, 2016 7:13 AM in response to alsangage
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    Aug 3, 2016 7:13 AM in response to alsangage

    MMake sure you only have that one page document open. I have found when you have a second page doc open you will receive an error saying that the app can't find the fields required.

  • by alsangage,

    alsangage alsangage Aug 3, 2016 11:59 PM in response to turlie
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    Aug 3, 2016 11:59 PM in response to turlie

    I only had one pages document open and one numbers document open. So that was not the problem. Thank you for your answer in any case!

  • by Dawg1075,

    Dawg1075 Dawg1075 Sep 10, 2016 9:17 AM in response to Sal Soghoian
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    Sep 10, 2016 9:17 AM in response to Sal Soghoian

    Sal - I'm very late to the party, but this tool is GREAT! Thanks so much for investing not only the development time, but also the time to answer all of the questions in this thread.

     

    I, like many others here, am needing a solution for generating multiple labels on a single page. I think I've figured out a clunky work around for my current need, but if you have any more information on your work on this functionality, it would be so appreciated!

     

    Thanks again,

     

    Walt

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