I need help with the mail merge. What happened to it?
I just got off the phone with tech support at Apple. He couldn't make it work either. Apparently, Mavericks has removed Mail Merge capability. Make that upper case MAVERICKS HAS REMOVED MAIL MERGE FUNCTIONALITY. He promised to point it out to the engineers.
Apple removed it, along with 100 other features, 5 months ago from Pages 5. NOT Mavericks.
Still works in Pages '09 which should be in your Applications/iWork folder.
Rate/Review Pages 5.2 in the App Store and use the version that actually works.
Peter
It doesn't work in Pages '09, either. I say again, "I just got off the phone with tech support at Apple. He couldn't make it work either. Apparently, Mavericks has removed Mail Merge capability. Make that upper case MAVERICKS HAS REMOVED MAIL MERGE FUNCTIONALITY. He promised to point it out to the engineers." The guru on the phone, working in Pages '09, couldn't get it to work, either. The only salvation I can see is that the Firm That Shall Be Nameless just released a Mac version of Office. Assuming its word processor does mail merge, one will have to migrate to it to do mail merge.
I completely agree that the removal of Mail Merge from Pages 5.0 is a travesty. I have already sent feedback to Apple and urge everyone else to do likewise: http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html
I also agree with Peter that Mail Merge still works in Pages 4.0 found in iWork '09. I just tried it and it works fine.
John
Well, it beats me. This is the Pages I'm using.
This is what I get.
Pages '09, doesn't recognize Contacts. This is what I got myself, what the Apple tech saw on my computer when we were on the phone, and what he said he got when he tried it on his computer. Note that "Last Name" is in a window indicating that it is a merge field.
Yes but is it Sender Field (you) or Merge Field (them)?
It is working in my Pages '09 4.3 on Mavericks 10.9.2 for both.
Peter
Here is what I am doing.
1. Open Pages '09.
2. Create a document.
3. In that document, put the cursor where I want the merge field.
4. In that document, select Insert > Merge Field > Name > Last Name
5. Click Return
6. Select Insert > Merge Field > Address > Work City
7. Show Invisibles to make sure the name and city are in separate windows, indicating that they are merge fields.
[This should finalize as the last name with the work city under it.]
8. Click Edit > Mail Merge.
9. And get the results shown on my last posting.
10. I repeated the process substituting âSender Fieldâ for âMerge Fieldâ
in steps #4 and #6 and get the same results.
I obviously have a basic misunderstanding of the process. What am I doing wrong?
One other thing: I have both Pages '09 and Pages 5 installed. Could they be conflicting with each other?
I have both Pages '09 and Pages 5.2 installed on my Mavericks OSX 10.9.2 boot drive. They do not interfere with each other at all. Apple has all Apps sandboxed since Lion.
Menu > Insert > Merge Field > Choose
NB How the Merge Inspector adds the new fields to its list:
Dragged the VCard (the blue highlighted name) of the Contact onto the Pages document below:
The Result:
For multiple merges make up a Group in Contacts and drag the Group onto the Pages document and it will reproduce several pages of merges.
Peter
Interesting point of difference:
I have Address Book in my Applications which came over from my Migration to Mavericks.
It is not openable, because it is incompatible but it seems to be being used to merge from Contacts:
Peter
I have posted this to Pages Feedback, maybe it will go somewhere.
Always a first! đ
Peter
Dr. Dave wrote:
The only salvation I can see is that the Firm That Shall Be Nameless just released a Mac version of Office. Assuming its word processor does mail merge, one will have to migrate to it to do mail merge.
Salvation does not lie with the Dark Lord.
LibreOffice [free] is the only light at the end of this Apple deliberately collapsed tunnel.
Peter
Good idea but it just doesn't work. The Contacts folder appears to be dragged over but it bouces back as soon as released.
What folder?
You drag over Contact names or Groups.
Peter
I misspoke. A Group looks like a folder while it is being dragged. The group bounces back when released and does not place the fields' data in the fields.
What happened to the mail merge?
