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  1. Exit Outlook and Teams

  2. Choose Start > Control Panel > SearchMail” (top right corner)

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  3. Click Add

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  4. Type the name of the profile e.g. shared-email and (shared-email, for example) and click OK

  5. ​Enter the shared account information – email address sharedaccount@uconn.edu

  6. You may be If prompted for a password type YOUR Uconn Email - firstname.lastname@uconn.edu and NetID password here.

  7. Click Next Click  > Finish

  8. In Back in the Mail window, select the new profile (shared-email) and select Prompt for a profile to be used.

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  9. Open Outlook and click the down arrow next to the profile name to select a profile – choose the shared account profile (e.g., shared-email)

  10. Select the Send/Receive tab and select the Work Offline button (Mac Outlook - select Tools tab and toggle the Online/Offline button)

  11. Open the document you want to send via Mail Merge

  12. Select the Mailings tab

  13. Click Select Recipients and choose “Use Existing List

  14. Use the dialog box to open your mailing list

  15. Select the appropriate table in the text dialog box

  16. If necessary, select Edit Recipient List and de-select all unwanted data

  17. Select Finish and Merge

  18. Select Send E-Mail Messages

  19. In the “Merge to E-mail” dialog box that comes up, verify that the “To:” field and the “Subject line” field show the correct fields. Then verify that the mail format is HTML. Click OK.

  20. The emails will then propagate in your Outbox in Outlook

  21. If needed, you can open the messages in the Outbox and manually edit any information. For example, in the “CC” field you could add additional recipients.

  22. When you are sure the emails are correct, switch Outlook back into Online mode (see step 12) and the messages will be sentFor more information on mail-merge see Use mail merge to send bulk email messages - Office Support (microsoft.com) and 

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  2. . When you open Outlook, you should see the Shared Mailbox email address in the left-side column. It may take some time for Outlook to load all of the emails in the shared mailbox.

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