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Defining your own address book fields – Apple Pages 2 User Manual

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Chapter 10

Personalizing Documents With Address Book Data

Defining Your Own Address Book Fields

When you need to modify an Address Book field or create new Address Book fields,

you use the Merge pane of the Link Inspector.

To create an Address Book field:

1

Open a Pages document.

2

Place the insertion point at the location where you want the Address Book field to

appear.

3

If the Link Inspector isn’t open, choose Insert > Address Book Field. Otherwise, select

“Enable as an Address Book field” in the Merge pane of the Link Inspector. A

placeholder for the Address Book field is inserted and highlighted.

4

In the Merge pane of the Link Inspector, open the Type pop-up menu. Choose the

category that best describes the kind of data you want inserted into the field.

5

From the Field pop-up menu, choose the Address Book field whose data you want to

insert into the Address Book field. The placeholder text is replaced by the name of the

Address Book field you selected.

6

Click Sender Field or Recipient Field to indicate the kind of Address Book field you

want to create.

To create a field with a custom name, select the text in your document that you want

to use as the Address Book field name, then go to step 3 above.

Choose the category
describing the data you want
to insert.

Choose the Address Book
field that contains the data.

Select to make selected text
an Address Book field.