mail merge

There is a temporary solution if you don't mind going back to Pages '09 with your new Pages 5 document. Pages 5.0 gives you a choice export your Pages 5 document as "Pages '09". Export as "Pages '09" (make sure to label it as created for merging) and then open in previous version of Pages. Updating to Pages 5 did not destroy your previous 4.3 version. It's in your apps!

Now! If you were using a Numbers spreadsheet for your data source, and have also upgraded to the newer version on Numbers, you can follow the same workflow. You will have to export your spreadsheet as Numbers '09 and use that as your merge source. SO you will have to continue to open and work with your Pages '09 and Numbers '09 documents to do your merges until Apples provides us an update containing a mail merge workflow. Ugly I know, but it will tie you over. Apple never leaves you hangin' forever.

Why ugly? Isn't it better to use the application that can do the job for the job?

It's not that ugly. I don't mind that much. It took my 5 minutes out of my way to find this work around but it worked extremely well for me. Some people are annoyed to have redundant documents for the sake of using old functionality. If your extrememly organized and label your files diligently, it's not bad.

But what is the point of using the infewrior Pages 5 then?

Stick with Pages '09 and cut the problem out of the loop.

Peter

Thank you soooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!

It takes some getting used to but I downloaded OpenOffice for Mac.

It's not nearly as user friendly as other mail merge sw but does not a bad job.

You can use a script called "Pages Data Merge" to accomplish this. The link follows.

http://iworkautomation.com/pages/script-tags-data-merge.html

And the sole support for that solution is frequently posted in the Pages for Mac Support community by its author.