Pages email merge: Running Pages 14.2 on MacBook Pro running MacOS 15.7.2.
Have created a Pages doc to email merge
Also created Numbers doc as data source
Have successfully merged
But when I click “mail merge” in bottom right window of the Mail Merge dialog box , I don’t get any prompt allowing me to merge the documents into Mac Mail.
¿What am I doing wrong?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 15.7
Pages' Mail Merge will create a new Pages document, with the template contents duplicated for each entry in the Merge list - in other words, if your template was 1 page, and you have 100 names in your mail merge, you end up with a single 100-page document.
If you want to mail the document to the individuals, there's extra work to be done.
If you want the formatted PDF to go to each recipient, it's possible to 'print' the document to a PDF and split the PDF into separate documents, one-per-page, which you can then email. I wrote a little AppleScript doodad a while ago to automate this. I can try and find it.
On the other hand, if you're trying to send a plain text email, it's probably easier to have a script generate the emails directly.
Pages' Mail Merge will create a new Pages document, with the template contents duplicated for each entry in the Merge list - in other words, if your template was 1 page, and you have 100 names in your mail merge, you end up with a single 100-page document.
If you want to mail the document to the individuals, there's extra work to be done.
If you want the formatted PDF to go to each recipient, it's possible to 'print' the document to a PDF and split the PDF into separate documents, one-per-page, which you can then email. I wrote a little AppleScript doodad a while ago to automate this. I can try and find it.
On the other hand, if you're trying to send a plain text email, it's probably easier to have a script generate the emails directly.
Mail Merge in Pages is a hopeful name but does not integrate with Apple Mail. If you used Mail Merge with Word and Excel, it does integrate with Outlook Mail. Choose the right tools for the job.
Pages mail merge not prompting to send to Mac Mail
