Mail Merge

You should still have the old Pages on your computer in Applications > iWork 09 folder!

If you are unhappy with Pages 5 trash or archive it, then review/rate it in the App Store.

Peter

Fruhulda is correct. 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.

…or if you are unhappy with Pages 5 trash or archive it, then review/rate it in the App Store.

Peter

UNREAL !!! This is one the ONLY features I used each year as I did holiday mailings using Pages..... thank goodness I still have '09 working. I have spent more time struggling with Pages 5 than getting anything done with it ..... simply HORRIBLE 😟

Tell other users in the App Store.

In Australia the rating is now over 68% give 1 star "I hate it", 77% 1 or 2 stars "I don't like it/hate it".

Peter

but what to do on a new iMac, if just the new iWork was installed - no old version is available.

Does there exist a download possibility somewhere?

Thanks

Michael

Have you migrated to your new Mac?

Then Pages'08/'09 should be in your Applications/iWork folder.

Otherwise Amazon is selling the entire iWork '09 suite for US$27 and there are other sources on the internet.

Peter

I just bought a new MacBook Pro with Maveicks installed, and on migrating lost Pages "09...didn't bother me as I thought Pages 5 was an improvement. Like others, horrified when I went to do my regular Mail Merge and found it has gone - beggars belief!!. Luckily, I have been using a Time Machine hard drive and was able to go back a couple of months and recover iWork '09. To my relief, this lets me do my Mail Merge as before. Don't know yet about creating new ones, but will follow advice by other contibutors.

Apple have gravely disappointed me (and many others) with this dumbing down...

I hope they resolve this soon who said this was ok sadly lacking 😟 at least they left us with the old one in the folder

I use my MacBook Pro to service my work with a number of clients. Imagine how dismayed I was this week to tell a client that I could not perform an ordinary mail merge for the client because Apple had removed the capability from its software. The client looked at my like I had just landed from some kind of pre-20th Century culture. No mail merge? "You mean you don't know how to do it?" the client asked. "No, I mean, I cannot do it because the function has been removed from my Apple software," I replied. "No, no, no," the client said. "It's just you don't know how to run your software." "No, I replied, mail merge used to be part of the software and Apple took it away. Thus, I cannot complete your assignment."

This was a most embarrassing moment. I certify to my clients that I have a full suite of office software. But owning iWorks apparently no longer means I have a full suit of office software. I now own software that is every bit as capable as the software on my tablet and smartphone. But on a PC like a MBP, I expect more features -- certainly not the removal of a standard feature.

I love Apple. I love living in the Apple universe. But today, Apple has let me down, in public, with my client eyeing me curiously. I am incredulous.

It sounds like you previously used Pages '09.

It should still be in your Application/iWork folder.

Pages never was a complete clone of Word and you should not certify that iWork is a replacement for that.

Apple has stripped software of features without notice previously and is continuing on this path relentlessly, irregardless of its customers, so get used to it or switch.

Peter