![]() If you’re printing entries only from your contacts, Apple’s Contacts app offers built-in label printing with selectable Avery and DYMO templates. My ultimate solution for printing labels after many, many hours of testing was Avery’s Design & Print service (free account required), which is clever but limited. Pages doesn’t yet handle labels or any blocks of placeholders that would require inserting multiple records on a single page that fill with the next item from the data source. The bad news? You can merge “letters, cards, and envelopes,” according to Apple. That’s good news because many people don’t have a license for either of those apps. ![]() It’s easier if you only want to merge from Contacts.Īpple’s revived mail merge in Pages 12.1 is utter bliss, both on its own and by comparison to Word and Swift Publisher. But despite the effort BeLight put into the feature, I found it more painful than Word to use when merging from spreadsheet data. To its credit, BeLight gave users a free license to Swift Publisher, its desktop publishing software, which has some rudimentary tools for mail merge. I used BeLight’s Labels & Addresses app for years, but the company opted not to upgrade it to 64-bit compatibility, so it died with macOS 10.15 Catalina. (Avery is a major producer of printable labels in all varieties.) What I remember as a quick set of clicks and formatting in the 1990s and 2000s took hours of fiddling to produce something that still didn’t look exactly like I wanted. I recently wrestled with Word to produce shipping labels for a Kickstarter project’s rewards, and every step was painful, despite its built-in templates for Avery labels. Microsoft Word has always had mail merge, but it’s far more complicated than the last time I used it. It’s commonly used to generate form letters, address labels, and name tags. A concept dating back at least four decades, mail merge lets you insert placeholders in a template document that are replaced with entries in a column of data in a spreadsheet or similar tabular format. Apple removed the feature from the iWork suite as part of the fundamental rewrite of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote in 2013. #1679: iOS 17’s Check In, iOS 17.03 addresses overheating, Mac browser popularity, Arc adds AI features, do you use Finder tags?Īfter nearly a decade, Apple has finally brought mail merge back to Pages.1680: iPhone recommendations for seniors, unsticking iCloud Drive sync, iOS bug turns off devices at night, iOS 16 security fixes.#1681: Take Control Books 20th anniversary, USB-C Apple Pencil, Kini motion detector monitors access, topical social spaces.#1682: Apple’s “Scary Fast” announcement, X.1 updates to 2023 OS versions, Microsoft Word’s 40th anniversary, 5G wireless Internet.#1683: New M3 chips in updated MacBook Pros and iMac, record Apple Q4 profits on lower revenues, no more 27-inch iMacs.Pages is $4.99 but is made free to any new iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad owner. No matter which one you choose, both Pages and Office for iPad are two of the best ways to take your documents with you. If you do a lot of document editing on your iPad, it may be worth it to take a look at Office for iPad which provides an official app for Microsoft Word. The same goes for opening documents from others in Pages. This ensures no matter what app someone uses to view your work, you know they won't have problems with file types. If you have colleagues or friends and family members that use Microsoft Office, you can even save your documents in. With an intuitive interface that was built for use on touch screen devices, Pages is not only one of the most feature rich word processing options available, it's one of the best experiences on an iPhone or iPad. ![]() Essentially, you can start a document or project in Pages for iPhone and pick up right where you left off in Pages for iPad or Pages for Mac. Thanks to iCloud you can also sync your Pages documents between your iPhone and iPad, and with Pages for Mac, as well as share and collaborate online via iWork on iCloud on. Apple includes a large assortment of templates to help get you started with most projects, but you can also make any custom layout you like. With Pages you can easily and elegantly compose anything and everything from a newsletter to a book, a memo to flyer, essay to resume, poster to card, and much, much more. Pages, part of the iWork suite of office and productivity apps for iPhone and iPad, is Apple's answer to word processing, page layout, and document creation.
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