- Step 1:Initially, download the Pages Data Merge app and install it on your Mac computer.
- Step 2:Now, navigate to the Applications folder and open the Pages app.
- Step 3:Click the Format tab on the top right corner of the screen.
- Step 4:Select the More tab.
- Step 5:Now, highlight the placeholder text that starts with FIRSTNAME.
- Step 6:Under Format, select the Advanced tab.
- Step 7:Now, select Define as Placeholder Text. Click Script Tag.
- Step 8:When the Formatting menu appears, enter a suitable name in the Placeholder field.
- Step 9:You can repeat the above step for each placeholder.
- Step 10:The spreadsheet will have the following details like LASTNAME, CITY, STREET, STATE, and ZIP.
- Step 11:Now on following how to do a mail merge in pages 2019 manual, open the spreadsheet with the names and addresses in numbers.
- Step 12:Select all the cells to which you have added data.
- Step 13:Now, open the Pages Data Merge app and click Menu.
- Step 14:Click Selection Numbers Table. Select the Import option.
- Step 15:The first item you have selected will now be imported.
- Step 16:Select the placeholder tag FIRSTNAME from the drop-down list and import it.
- Step 17:Select the file format you want to mail merge.
- Step 18:You can select the Pages Document format from the displayed list. Otherwise, choose your preferred format.
- Step 19:Go to the ‘Select the export destination’ section and click Choose Export Folder.
- Step 20:Now, choose a preferred location on your Mac computer to save the mail merged files.
- Step 21:Click on the Begin button. This will start the mail merge process.
- Step 22:When prompted for confirmation, click on the Begin button.
- Step 23:Now, the mail merge AppleScript you have made will run.
- Step 24:Also, a pages document will be separately created for all persons in the spreadsheet.
- Step 25:When the mail merge process is complete using the above given how to do a mail merge in pages 2019 manual, a confirmation dialog box will appear on the screen.
