Instead of including their personal information (i.e. I begin the process by composing the letter itself. In this example, I want to send a quick note to each person who attended a recent family birthday party. That personal information can be retrieved either from the OS X Address Book, or other sources (such as an Apple Numbers file).
Mail merge allows you to compose a single document, and when it comes time to print, customize that for a large group of recipients, each with their name, address, etc. For the sake of keeping it simple, we'll use a standard letter in our example (although you can use this for anything. Chapter 14 in the LibreOffice Writer User Guide is about Mail Merge. This is better done with applications designed for it, either using Word/Excel or the free LibreOffice Writer/Calc applications. In this post, I will explain what a mail merge is, and walk you through how to create one using Apple's Pages app (the word processor app that's part of their productivity suite iWork).īefore we dive into how it works, let's talk about what it does (for those who aren't familiar with the concept). 12:00 PM in response to Marabina67 There is no built-in Mail Merge in any release of Pages from v5 (Oct 2013 to present 10.3.9). I would bet, actually, that if more people knew how easy it was to process a mail merge, more people would use it. It's sort of a dying art, but it's still important to know how it works, in case you ever need to use it.
Let's face it, for most people, there just aren't that many reasons to print out letters these days, but there are still lots of reasons to use the mail merge feature in your favorite word processor (making labels, flyers, invitations, etc).
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