Well, placeholders don't really work for this because the idea of a placeholder is you put them in templates. Now you may thing why aren't I using placeholders. This is regular body text but I have two text boxes here. So here in Pages what I'm using are two text boxes. Not some long complex thing that most people won't understand but something that's the fewest number of lines possible that just about anybody can look at, understand, and then maybe continue to modify it to meet your needs.

Now my goal here is to provide you with a really simple script. So you could see there is the student's name at the top and there's a spot where the locker number will appear.

Each piece of paper will be a little different. Like, for instance in school, this could be something in the beginning of the year where it has a person's name on it, instructions how to use their locker, and their locker number. So let's say, for example, you need to printout a piece of paper for everybody in your organization, company, or school and it has to have their name on it and maybe some other pieces of information. So this could be useful in some situations although it could also be a big waste of paper. The other thing mail merge means is to printout sheets of paper that are personalized for each person. So look into a Pro email service for doing that and they have tools for that. Even if your email is legit you're not supposed to be sending out mass emails from a personal consumer email service. Sending it out from your personal email account is a good way to get yourself banned from your email service or marked as a spammer. Instead you should be using a professional email service like the one I use to send out the MacMost NewsLetter. You shouldn't be using your Mac for that at all. So the first is actually send out an email to a large group of people and have each email be customized. What does mail merge mean? Well there are usually one of two things that people are talking about and I don't like either of them.

I often get asked if it's possible to do mail merge using Pages. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 750 supporters. Today let me show you how to script a mail merge using Pages and Numbers on your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out How To Mail Merge On Mac With Pages, Numbers and a Simple Script at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

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