Mail merge from a Shared Mailbox

How To

Question:

• How can I do a mail merge using a shared mailbox?

Steps: 

To do a mail merge on a shared mailbox you have been granted access to you must add a profile to your Outlook Client.

If you want to do a mail merge from a shared mailbox account, a profile for the shared mailbox needs to be added.

1. Open up the “Control Panel” and change the view by to see large icons
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2. Click on the “Mail (Microsoft Outlook 2016) (32-bit)
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3. Click on “Show Profiles…”
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4. Click on “’Add”
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5. Enter a name for the shared mailbox.
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6. Choose manual setup.
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7. Enter the email address of the shared mailbox.
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8. When the windows security box opens up. Enter your starid@metrostate.edu, and your password into the security window.
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9. A window for restarting outlook will open up
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10. When you want to do the mail merge set the sharedmail profile to the default.
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    2. Note by default any new messages will be sent as the sharedmailbox address when this profile is choosen.