[macvoiceover] Re: mail merge in the new pages?
- From: Keith Reedy <wa9dro@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Voiceover Mac <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:41:53 -0400
Hi Ian,
We have worked with Openoffice some years ago and more recently Libreoffice.
The are much alike however as of late Libreoffice seems to be the more speech
friendly. I really don't use it much haven't used it in months but my wife
uses it for mail merge at least for now.
Good luck and let me know how it goes.
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.
On Oct 18, 2014, at 12:10 AM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 17, 2014, at 11:23 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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