Pages 5.5 Mail and Data Merge

Pages 5.5 includes new scripting support for locating and replacing text placeholders. In addition, text placeholders can be "tagged" in the application interface, with script identifiers by selecting the text placeholder to tag and entering its "script tag" in the the new Script Tag field available at the bottom of the More tab in the format sidebar. With this new ability, scripts can replace the text placeholders in a document with data from other sources, including Numbers spreadsheets.


But you don't have to write scripts to take advantage of this new feature!


To make it easy for non-scripters to perform Mail merges, and other automated data merging tasks, there is a free application, the Pages Data Merge application, available at: http://iworkautomation.com/pages/script-tags-data-merge.html


Watch the movie, follow the instructions, and give it a try!

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 2:43 PM

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Sep 10, 2016 9:17 AM in response to Sal Soghoian

Sal - I'm very late to the party, but this tool is GREAT! Thanks so much for investing not only the development time, but also the time to answer all of the questions in this thread.


I, like many others here, am needing a solution for generating multiple labels on a single page. I think I've figured out a clunky work around for my current need, but if you have any more information on your work on this functionality, it would be so appreciated!


Thanks again,


Walt

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Pages 5.5 Mail and Data Merge

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