MAIL MERGE

[BHL]

I have been user of Serif Products particularly Page Plus in its various versions.

PP had a very useful mail merge facility which I used to print, personalise and address letters. Originally it could take data directly from an Excel file but sadly lost that capability.

I can find nothing like this in Affinity Publisher. Can anyone help please?

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @BHL

You have posted this in one of the iPad sections of the forums but Publisher isn’t yet available on the iPad.
One of the moderators will probably move this thread to a more appropriate place for you.

[PaulEC]

Affinity Publisher has a Mail Merge function, but it is slightly different to how it worked in PagePlus. You should be able to find further information in the Help file.

[Komatös]

37 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

Affinity Publisher has a Mail Merge function, but it is slightly different to how it worked in PagePlus. You should be able to find further information in the Help file.

Shure? 

I think you are confusing this with the data merge function. However, you cannot create and send automated email newsletters with it. Am I wrong?

 

Ok, lost in translation. You are right, and I am a little bit too.  With data merge there is a way to do all the things, the OP wish.

Edited January 22, 2022 by Komatös

[Komatös]

And here is a video with shows how to work with data merge.

 

[PaulEC]

 

2 hours ago, Komatös said:

I think you are confusing this with the data merge function.

You're quite right, in PagePlus it was called Mail Merge and in APub it's Data Merge, but, essentially, you can do the same sort of things in both.

2 hours ago, Komatös said:

you cannot create and send automated email newsletters with it.

I don't think you can send automated emails, but that isn't what the OP asked about and, as far as I remember, that wasn't possible in PagePlus either.

[PaulEC]

5 hours ago, BHL said:

Originally it could take data directly from an Excel file but sadly lost that capability.

I could be wrong, but I think that had something to do with whether you were using the 32 bit or 64 bit version of PagePlus. (You could, of course, export an Excel file as CSV and use that instead.)

[Alfred]

3 hours ago, PaulEC said:

I could be wrong, but I think that had something to do with whether you were using the 32 bit or 64 bit version of PagePlus.

No, you’re not wrong. The 32-bit version includes options which are unavailable in the 64-bit version.