Apple Pages '09 User Manual

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To insert merge data for all contacts in an Address Book group:

1

Open a document that contains merge fields.

2

Choose Edit > Mail Merge, and then choose a group or All from the pop-up menu.

You can also choose a group or All in Address Book and drag it to a merge field in
the document.

3

In the dialog that appears, do one of the following:

To create a new document that contains a section for each contact in the group, choose
New Document from the pop-up menu.
To print a personalized copy of the document for each contact in the group, choose “Send
to Printer” from the pop-up menu.
If you don’t wish to have missing contact information substituted (for example, a work
address for a home address), deselect the checkbox.

To insert merge data for contacts in multiple cards using Address Book:

1

Open a document that contains merge fields.

2

Select the Address Book cards you want to use, and then drag them to a merge field.

In the dialog that appears, do one of the following:
To create a new document that contains a section for each contact, choose New
Document from the pop-up menu.
To print a personalized copy of the document for each contact, choose “Send to Printer”
from the pop-up menu.
If you don’t wish to have missing contact information substituted (for example, a work
address for a home address), deselect the checkbox.

To insert merge data for one or more contacts using a Numbers document:

1

Choose Edit > Mail Merge, and then click Numbers Document.

2

Choose a Numbers document in the window that appears, and click Open.

3

For each merge field, click the Target Name pop-up menu in the Merge window, and

select a target.

4

Print the document.

5

To reuse the document with other Numbers data, select another Numbers document,

and repeat steps 1 through 4.

Note: If your document has facing pages, double-sided printing of a mail merge might
cause one document to print on the other side of a previous document.

You can also use contact information that isn’t in Address Book or a vCard for a sender
or merge field. For more information, see “Using Contact Data Not in Address Book or a
vCard”
on page 249.

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Chapter 11

Personalizing Documents with Address Book and Numbers Data

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