Mac OS X Mavericks breaks iWork ´09!

by Dr. Stack van Hay | 31. Oktober 2013 14:08

If you need the merge feature of iWork ´09 you better back away from MacOS X Mavericks! The mail merge feature in iWork ´09 breaks when you upgrade your OS to Mavericks!

Detailed Description

While all the relevant menu entries are still available and you will be able to choose your source-document and so on, when it comes to selecting the colums of the Numbers-document to use for merging you simply have exactly one choice: the first column. Thats it. All other columns of the Numbers table are not accessible from pages.

Upgrading won´t help

Yes, it´s possible to update to iWork 5 and yes, even without paying!

But upgrading won´t help you since the new iWork 5 doesn´t support merging any more! It seems, while they´re upgrading the Mac Pro, they´re retargeting the iWork suite away from soho towards private toying around.

Confirmed

I tested this on several computers and with newly created and proven-to-work old files: no hope. It´s broken.

When I copied iWork ´09 to a computer running Mountain-Lion things worked on Mavericks not.

Conspiracy theory

You think bad things can happen? Yes, they can! But I think Apple was fully aware of this problem! Maybe that is the reason, why they stopped merging support in iWork 5? They did not wan´t to delay the release of either Mavericks or iWork 5 by waiting for the underlaying problem to be solved that is what i think. And it´s not the first time at all that the guys in cupertino behave like this.

Incomplete List of removed features

1. Accented Characters in Footer
2. Alignment Guides
3. Background Object selectable
4. Bookmarks and Links
5. Bullet points in comments
6. Capture pages/sections
7. Character Styles
8. Import of older .pages formatting – Not Clean
9. Customizable Toolbar
10. Default Start Up page
11. Delete page
12. Drag and Drop VCards
13. Drag reorganize pages
14. Duplicate pages
15. Endnotes
16. Export to .txt or .rtf
17. Facing pages
18. Find & Replace special characters (e.g. paragraph returns)
19. Images within Tables
20. Import Styles
21. Insert File Name
22. Layout Breaks
23. Layout Margins
24. List Styles
25. Mail Merge
26. Manage Pages
27. Mask with shapes other than rectangle
28. Mathtype/Grapher Equations/Formulae within Pages
29. Media Inspector links to Aperture Library
30. Media Inspector links to iPhoto library on external drive
31. Merge Fields
32. Multiple Comments view
33. Open Type features
34. Outline view
35. Paste and keep style
36. Retain zoom level of document
37. Search comments
38. Search in Media Browser
39. Search Sidebar
40. Select all instances of a Style
41. Select non-contiguous text
42. Selective formatting in Character Styles
43. Storyboards
44. Style Function key shortcuts
45. Styles Drawer
46. Subscript/superscript buttons
47. T.O.C. clean numbering
48. Tables in Headers/Footers
49. Tables to Text
50. Text to Tables
51. Textbox linking
52. Two-up view
53. User Guide (?)
54. Vertical Ruler
55. Word (.DOCX) export to iCloud

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