![]() ![]() Then when I look under Document, Mail Merge, it will show me all of the different mail merge fields. So, for instance, let's go and select this Celebration Event one and it will load it in. You could also go down here to some new templates, Cards, and use one of these. Each one with a different address right here. Then I can click Merge and it would merge to create a document with four pages now. I can preview each one and see what it's getting. I can click Merge here, choose Contacts, choose from which Group here, it shows four records. Even at the bottom it's got the name there at the bottom from the sender. Then all of these other fields here including the first name there. It also includes phone number, email address, and all that from my card there. If I go to document here down to the bottom is Mail Merge. As you can imagine you can go and use Letters right here, I'll use Classic Letter. There are other templates that work as well. But if I got the addresses right and everything looks good I can now go and Print. I can still go in and change something right there. ![]() Each one customized with a different address. The original one, which is the template, and this new one which actually now has four pages, or four envelopes, here. What it is going to do is it's going to create a new document. Now to perform the Mail Merge I simply click Merge here. So here's the sender name and address and I can see the first name and address and I can flip through each one and check to make sure they all look good. I can Preview here and it can show me for each card what it's going to use. But in this case it guesses right the first time. Then for these I can map them to any field in the Contacts App I want. So that is where it gets the Sender information from. So this one selected here if it didn't have that little icon there I could make it my card by going to Card, Make This My Card. So, in this case yes for the sender I do want it to use the home address and the full name and that's coming from the Contacts App from the card designated as your card. So if I select that group here, you can see it says 4 records, and you can map what you want to each field. So I have four different contacts and I can check to make sure that they do all indeed have an address right here as the home address and then of course the name is filled out. You can create Groups by going to File, New Group and create it that way and then Drag and Drop to add into the group there. But I've created a Group called Friends and I've add it to the Contacts here. I'm going to switch to the Contacts App here and you could see I've got all these contacts and I don't want to send to everybody. You could also choose a Group or all of your contacts. ![]() So if we're going to do the Contacts App what you want to do is click Merge right here, stick with Contacts here on the left and then you could assign each one of these to a different field in Contacts. The first is the Contacts App and the second is a Numbers spreadsheet. Now the data for the Mail Merge can come from one of two places. Then you also have this full name and address for the person that the envelope is addressed to. You've got the full name and address right here and you could click one and you can see it indicates which one it is. So you can see the green one matched to green. You're going to see each field and you'll see them highlighted here. Click that and now you're going to see Mail Merge options here. To do this you would go to Document on the right and then at the bottom of Document, all the way down here in the sidebar, is Mail Merge. But now you can use Mail Merge to print a set of envelopes. Now, of course, you can just type what you want in here. You can use this to print an envelope if your printer can take envelopes. You can see here you've got your return address and you have the address who you're sending the letter to. So let's go down here to the Envelopes Section and I'll choose, say, Classic Envelope. Now the simplest way to see this in action is to use a template that uses addresses. ![]() It's version 12.1 which you can only get if you have macOS Big Sur or newer. Check to make sure you have the latest version of Pages. This was a feature that we had a long time ago in a previous incarnation of Pages and now it's back. So there's a new update to Pages and you can use it to do a Mail Merge. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let's take a look at the new Mail Merge feature in Pages. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out How To Use Mail Merge With Pages On a Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. ![]()
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