I have used AppleWorks for a long time to keep a database and then use Mail Merge to create individual letters and envelopes for the people in my database with Fields filled in the letter from the database. Now that I use Pages and tried Bento, I could find no way to do the same. Have you found a way?

bieman99:

Bento integrates with Address Book, and Address Book performs mail merge with Pages. Therefore, if you put your data in the Address Book Library, it will update your Address Book application, and then you can use Pages to reference the appropriate fields within Address Book.

TSGal
Filemaker, Inc.

There's a great tip at Bentousers.com (http://www.bentousers.com/20080411-importing-related-data-into-bento/) that uses Microsoft Access as a starting point for importing data into Bento. I think, as with this article, that in order to get your Access data into Bento, you'll first need to export your existing data into a .CSV format.

This tip is also great because it shows you how to import and link related data automatically; a tip which doesn't appear in this article.

Bentousers.com is a great Bento resource, although not always updated regularly.

-Jeff Battersby

Message was edited by: reyespoint to erase a dumb typo.

Will Bento2 import from an earlier version of Excel (10.1.0) or from AppleWorks 6?