Merging to your email from a numbers spreadsheet

[frankhanna]

It seems unlikely but is there a method for creating an email which you can send to a large number of people where you can use the first name off the recipient taken from the spreadsheet as the data source.

I have tried Microsoft Word but unfortunately it doesn't work with Mac mail.

This seems so fundamental and I feel must be a way of doing it can anybody help?

Yours faithfully Frank

 

[chscag]

The Microsoft Word mail merge is designed to work with Excel. You mentioned Numbers (Apple iWork spreadsheet application) in your title or do you mean an Excel numbers spreadsheet?

 

[frankhanna]

The Microsoft Word mail merge is designed to work with Excel. You mentioned Numbers (Apple iWork spreadsheet application) in your title or do you mean an Excel numbers spreadsheet?

I was referring to Numbers spreadsheet. A couple of years ago my Outlook got hacked so I stopped using it and switched from Windows to Mac. I now use Numbers and Pages and I am surprised there is no email merge facility and I was just posting to wonder if there just might be some way or some app that can do it. I can email to groups from Contacts but that can't be personalised e.g. Dear John etc.

Hope there is a way but so far its only outlook.

Thanks for your interest....Frank

 

[chscag]

Although Pages doesn't offer an easy way to do mail merge, there is a method that you can use with Pages and Numbers. Check out this article and link. Turn down your sound first...

 

[frankhanna]

Merging

Although Pages doesn't offer an easy way to do mail merge, there is a method that you can use with Pages and Numbers. Check out this article and link. Turn down your sound first...

Thank you so much...Will try this.

I must say I think it is a fundamental mistake for Apple to have left this feature out. Maybe they will think again.

Frank

 

[chscag]

I must say I think it is a fundamental mistake for Apple to have left this feature out. Maybe they will think again.

I agree. However, as Apple improves the iWork suite perhaps they'll include mail merge. Let us know how the above suggestion works out for you.