business cards in pages

- click on the "unedited business cards", and delete them, so you are only left with your 1 edited business card.

- take your mouse, and drag it over all data on the one business card to select everything, then go to "arrange" in the top menu, and select "group"

- click on the finished business card, then go to "edit/copy".

- simply paste the copies, into the other areas. You may need to drag them to their proper locations

Peter you keep mentioning menu, options and group. I have the pages template open, I have manually filled in the details but now I come to copy I can't see any menu, option or group? Am I being really dense here?

Sue

When I write

Menu > Arrange > Group

That is the sequence of steps to the choice. Menu is the menu bar at the top of your screen. Just look around, and explore Page's very logical organisation. It works from the big to the small, left to right.

Option/ALT is the key next to the command key.

Unless you are on an iPad but didn't say.

Karen

Simpler and faster to option shift drag copies into place.

Peter

Thank you all so much, just different terminology, I think of the menu as the task bar lol. Okay, I am making progress, I have done the copy, group bit but each time I click in an empty space and "paste" it pastes in the last box and I have to drag it down.

I like Peter's idea of being able to drag down so I will have a shot at that. Wish me luck. I am on an imac and still finding my way around 🙂

Magic, grateful thanks. I have a page of business cards, phew. I am learning all the time but sometimes it's difficult following instructions when everything is different to what you're used to. One last question, how do I get to the function that will automatically add in personal info onto such things as business cards? I set it up on my husband's mac mini and now I can't remember!

Pages merges the information from the data in your personal VCard in Contacts/Address Book.

You (the User) are the one with the head and shoulder icon in Contacts/Address Book.

The fields need to match and have the information available.

Many of Pages Letterhead and Business Cards have this already set up but if you need to do it from scratch:

Menu > Insert > Sender Field > add in all the details you want

Peter

I'm not trying to contradict you, but from what I can remember, it was something to do with preferences and user, it wasn't in contacts.

I've found it, sorry, my mistake, it's part of Word which he has on his Mac and I don't. That's why I couldn't find it.

That was one habit I was very happy to break*.

Now for all the others… 🙂

Peter

Last useable version of Word IMHO was Word 6 for the original Mac OS. After that they entered that magical kingdom of Weknowhatsbestforu.

Only they didn't. Explains the billions of people around the world now with badly written, ungramatical and misspelt material.

Copy and paste is one method

Duplicate by Cmd + D

Duplicate by Alt/Opt + drag

Duplicating Business cards

http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=182&highlight=busine ss+cards&mforum=iworktipsntrick

Peter

Menus are on the Macs at the top of the screen, not just at the top of a window.

Even on Windows the Task Bar is not the Menu.

Pages has a task bar at the top of the window with formatting options. Much like Microsoft Office.

Peter

You need to create a card in "address book / contacts" for it to auto populate this type of data

The User VCard is always there in Contacts/Address Book.

You should have put your personal details in when you first started your Mac and it asked you all those questions.

Peter

Word for Mac does not use the regular OSX methods or technologies.

That's Microsoft for you!

Peter