A Script Tag field will appear in the Text pane to the right. Now select the first placeholder entry and from Pages’ Format menu choose Advanced > Define As Placeholder Text. If the Format pane isn’t present, click the Format button in Pages’ toolbar and click the More tab. They’ll be replaced later with your merged data. Feel free to insert real or fake names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and so on for placeholder text. You start by creating a Pages document that serves as the template for your merged documents. As its name suggests it lets you incorporate data found in a Numbers spreadsheet into a Pages documents.Ī movie on the page describes the process from beginning to end but I can give you the gist. Here you’ll find an AppleScript and Pages page that provides instructions for using the free Pages Data Merge utility (the page also includes a link to that utility). Instead, I’ll direct you to the Mac OS X Automation site. This is possible through the power of AppleScript (don’t worry, I’m not going to ask that you learn AppleScript in order to carry out this job). There is, although it’s not a feature directly built into either app. Is there a way I can use the two of them to create mail merge documents? I’ve recently upgraded to OS X Yosemite as well as to the latest versions of Apple’s Numbers and Pages apps. Reader Ann Grace wishes to send form letters to her clients.
