[macvoiceover] Re: mail merge in the new pages?
- From: Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Mac Voiceover list Mac Voiceover List <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:10:35 -0600
I thought I remembered you had worked with LibreOffice. I was just starting to
get into it when the updated Pages came out and did everything I needed with my
limited document production. Now I’m thinking I’d like to send out letters to
the kids and families who went to our camp in the Summer, and a mail merge
option would be handy. I also used to use Mail Merge in MS Word for printing
addresses directly onto envelopes, Do you have a working solution for this?
Ha, just caught myself before I sent out the question. I looked it up and you
can print to envelops directly from the Contacts app. Now I’ll have to try it.
Of course it will baffle kids to receive something on paper in the mail. I bet
a statistically significant number of them will take a picture with their phone
so they can view it digitally.
Cheers, off to work with some tables in Pages because Apple does it right
sometimes.
Ian
> On Oct 17, 2014, at 9:45 PM, Keith Reedy <wa9dro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Well, we have tried both of the open platform programs and my lovely wife is
> not real happy with them, but Libreoffice may be an answer for now and she
> has another one that she will be trying in a day or 4. Thanks for all of
> your help.
> We print the Bible in Braille,
> http://biblesfortheblind.org
> Keith Reedy
> God gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him. J Hudson Taylor.
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> On Oct 17, 2014, at 11:23 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Looking through a list of word processors that report mail merging
>> capabilities
>> Apple Works, was there anything it didn’t do? I keep reading how it had
>> every feature you could want and they made it go away. Never used it myself.
>> Libre Office
>> Mariner Write
>> MS Word of course.
>> Neo Write
>> Open Office Writer
>> Pages
>> Star Office Writer
>> Text Edit, what kind of process does it use? May be a work around if you can
>> use Text Edit to cuck the contact information off your spreadsheet and then
>> bring it to Pages for formatting and prettying up.
>> Word Perfect, excuse me while I put a cassette in my Sports Walkman and
>> hang out in the 90s for a bit.
>>
>> Any of those offer any accessibility?
>>
>> Doing a little googling around, the only other word processor I found on
>> Voiceover lists and having mail merge capabilities was Nisus Writer. It was
>> the Pro version that had mail merge, which sports an $80 price tag. There is
>> a 15 day free trial, I can give it a test drive this coming week if nobody
>> else has experience with it. I’ll also give the Pages script automator a try
>> too just to see if it is bad as it seems from the description.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>> On Oct 17, 2014, at 8:39 PM, Keith Reedy <keithreedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is really a pain in the fanny and it worked a couple of versions back.
>>> We are going to need to look for another program that does mail merge, any
>>> ideas?
>>> kr
>>> We are Braille Bible printers,
>>> http://biblesfortheblind.org
>>> Keith Reedy
>>> keithreedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>
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>>> On Oct 17, 2014, at 7:59 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Apparently you need to be able to script it, or you can get an automator
>>>> application to do it. This kind of stuff scares me a little, but her’s the
>>>> link.
>>>>
>>>> http://iworkautomation.com/pages/script-tags-data-merge.html
>>>>
>>>> This doesn’t seem to be a superclever integrated process like I’m used to
>>>> from Apple, actually seems like a lesson I had to do at a computer class
>>>> in 1990 working with dos.
>>>>
>>>> Ian
>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 17, 2014, at 4:40 PM, Keith Reedy <keithreedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Mail merge was not in the last version of pages however the whats new in
>>>>> pages says that it is in the new pages. Does any one know if it is and
>>>>> if it works. I did a search but no info.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>> kr
>>>>> We are Braille Bible printers,
>>>>> http://biblesfortheblind.org
>>>>> Keith Reedy
>>>>> keithreedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>
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