Mail merge is grayed. How do I use it?
Power Mac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.6)
Download the Pages09_Userguide.pdf from under the Help menu.
Peter
You read carefully chapter #11 in Pages User Guide.
In the English version it means pages 243…249 so I can't resume them here.
PS: it would be a good idea to update from 10.4.6 to 10.4.11
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 30 mai 2011 22:42:31
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.7
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To be the AW6 successor, iWork MUST integrate a TRUE DB, not a list organizer !
My apologies, you are right Jerry.
I experimented with Layout on the off chance this was another of those gotchas, and Insert > Merge Field was greyed out.
This time it took.
A mystery, a mystery…
Peter
May I repeat that 10.4.6 isn't a valid Operating System version to use iWork '09 ?
So, if the OP is really using this old version it may explain the described behavior.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 2 juin 2011 10:05:58
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.7
Please : Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community
To be the AW6 successor, iWork MUST integrate a TRUE DB, not a list organizer !
I just tried it and it worked. I'm used to the MS Word order of doing this. It seems a bit weird and backward to put the fields in before telling the file that it is going to use mail merge.
As for Mr. Koenig's answer, The problem was not i the operating system, but in the sequence.
Nick
Difficult to guess that you didn't did the required tasks without applying the directions given in the User Guide.
There is no reason to assume that the MS Word requirements apply to iWork.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 2 juin 2011 20:17:37
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.7
Please : Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community
To be the AW6 successor, iWork MUST integrate a TRUE DB, not a list organizer !
Peter,
Mail Merge works in a Page Layout document just as well as it does in a WP doc.
Jerry
Mail merge is grayed. How do I use it?
