Pages 5.0 - No mail merge?!

Well you got that off your chest but seem to be saying simultaneously that you used the previous iWork '09 and that you don't have it.

Which is it?

Peter

Okay sorry that my reply implied I had an earlier version. I do not.

Thanks for asking for clarification

Suzanne

You can purchase the DVD boxed set of iWork '09 from Amazon for less than $20.

Just make sure to upgrade it to v4.3

Peter

Wow that is pretty good price. I will go check it out.

Just need to ensure DVDs are those that will run on my Australian computers.

Thank you for your helpful advise.

Suzanne

The DVDs are good for any Mac. Apple does not make different computers for different countries, just different keyboards.

You may not have noticed, but I am Australian.

Peter

its now worthless and weak.

iWork is now worthless, just a dumbed down iPhone app now. No money in computers anymore, so they are throwing out software.

It's the future and its mindless.

jm

good find, too bad we have to go backward to be productive.

Steve jobs was always about the little things that make our lives easier. It is inconceivable to me that he would've condoned the decision to remove mail-merge functionality front Pages on OS x. I understand the need to enable cross-platform sharing and collaboration with its iOS cousin, but to do so at the expense of a feature so fundamental is something I think he would have found unfathomable.

viaTech wrote:

Steve jobs was always about the little things that make our lives easier. It is inconceivable to me that he would've condoned the decision to remove mail-merge functionality front Pages on OS x. I understand the need to enable cross-platform sharing and collaboration with its iOS cousin, but to do so at the expense of a feature so fundamental is something I think he would have found unfathomable.

We hear that so often.

Last time I looked Steve Jobs was not beatified, and unlikely to ever be as he was not a nice person.

Plain truth was Steve Jobs made plenty of similar decisions leaving vast numbers of his customers in the lurch. This isjust Apple continuing the same path in extremis. The strange thing is that when they did sell products that were beautifully designed, simple to use and still were super productive they made no headway against their competitors. Now that they have introduced a confusing and often contradictory design, that demands considerable personal monitoring and prevents you getting most work done, they have crushed the opposition.

So the market has spoken. It wants toys with a constant fashionable churning of design that are only good for selfies, twitter and making enough noise to block out how pointless their lives really are.

Peter

Jim -

I need to do the same thing that you did (email merge). Had my Word document created and my Excel list to import the email addresses from only to realize you cannot do an email merge in Apple Mail. So I reverted to Outlook (Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac). I went through all of the steps to create an email merge but when I got to the last step to complete the merge, the "email" option was greyed out. What am I missing? I'm starting to panic as my deadline approaches.

Thank you!

Hi CherylMackay

Did you make Outlook your default email program?

To do that save your work and close MS Word, Excel (or whatever you are using). Open Apple Mail, Go to the mail menu and open preferences, choose default email reader, then choose Outlook. Then quit.

Restart your Mac.

Did you start from MS Word to create the merge?

Click on the Mailing's Tab. Click on the "Start Mail Merge" Button on the left but when you click on it use the little down arrow to drop down the select list and choose select Recipients. That will bring in your source. If there is an email address field you will be able to go to the next step. Click on the same "Start Mail Merge" Button but this time choose "Email Message".

Then when you are finished go to the button on the right and choose Finish and Merge - email should be there. Be careful - because it goes right into Outlook and the emails go out. Disconnect from the internet to have them queue up in your outbox.

Hope that helps

More details here:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2016-macword/mail-merge-wo rd-2016-for-mac/76374cac-2172-4a1e-8cae-256770b15212?page=2&auth=1

Note – they didn’t specify to restart their Mac, so it wasn't resetting and i think that's what frustrated many of these folks in that post.

YGBSM. Guess I'll break out my 1986 PC with Wordperfect...or was it Wordstar?...with integrated Mail Merge.

Dear Apple, Sometimes...you guys are idiots.

You are not talking to Apple here, as we are unpaid volunteers. Apple leadership and product teams do not participate in the Apple Support Communities.

Yeah...your point?