To accomplish what I needed, I created a file in Numbers containing all the informations required, like name, surname, address, coupled with some bonus things like a field containing Mr. Pages data merge is one of them, but you can find many others at.
MAIL MERGE IN APPLE PAGES HOW TO
MacOS X Automation, together with its corollary websites, is the home of many tutorials on how to use Apple Script and of few examples to use right away. Nor Pages nor Numbers support this feature natively, but luckily for us both applications are scriptable via Apple Script, and even more luckily, there is someone who has already done the work of figuring out how to do it. I had already dealt with this issues in the past, as I used to need to send pdf's filled out differently to different people, and I was glad to see the recipe hadn't changed in all these years because of some macOS or Pages release. I lately get extremely annoyed when I need to make repetitive tasks on a computer.I could have changed the relevant parts by hand in each one of them, but while this wouldn't have taken much time, I wanted to automate it for 2 reasons: according to the gender of the recipient.
Few weeks ago I had to print several letters, all of them containing pretty much the same text, except for the address header and few other details, like setting Mr.
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