Importing Merit Contacts to Outlook 2010 Transferring your contacts from the Merit Mail system to your new Outlook Exchange account is a fairly quick and easy process. However, due to some slight differences in the way that the two systems store data there are a few special steps to prepare the data from Merit so that it will import cleanly into Outlook. There are three steps to follow to move your contacts into Outlook: 1. Login your Merit account and use the export function to create a data file of your contacts 2. Using Excel or a text editor prepare the file for Outlook 3. Upload the file into Outlook It is important to note that the exporting and importing of contact groups (contact groups are distribution lists that have been specially by the user) is not supported and any lists you may have created will need to be recreated manually. Instructions for recreating contact groups will be available in a separate document. Step 1: Exporting Contacts from Merit * NOTE: In the pictures below Internet Explorer 8 and the advanced version (AJAX) of the Merit Email system will be used to illustrate the steps. Other browsers will work as does Merit’s standard version (the standard version is a different interface for the email system designed to work faster on older computers) However, there will be differences in the appearance of the mail system and the location of the controls to export your data. If possible use Internet Explorer (IE) and the AJAX interface to do this process* Begin by accessing the internet and navigating to the login page for your Marygrove Merit Mail account. 1. On the login screen enter your username and password in the appropriate boxes. Below where you have entered you username and password you will see a box labeled “Version”. Click on this box and from the drop-down list of options select “Advanced (AJAX)”. Page 1 of 21 2/6/2013 file://Z:\support\Importing_Merit_Contacts_to_Outlook_2010_2.0-1.htm
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Importing Merit Contacts to Outlook 2010
Transferring your contacts from the Merit Mail system to your new Outlook Exchange account is a fairly quick and easy
process. However, due to some slight differences in the way that the two systems store data there are a few special steps to
prepare the data from Merit so that it will import cleanly into Outlook. There are three steps to follow to move your contacts
into Outlook:
1. Login your Merit account and use the export function to create a data file of your contacts
2. Using Excel or a text editor prepare the file for Outlook
3. Upload the file into Outlook
It is important to note that the exporting and importing of contact groups (contact groups are distribution lists
that have been specially by the user) is not supported and any lists you may have created will need to be
recreated manually. Instructions for recreating contact groups will be available in a separate document.
Step 1: Exporting Contacts from Merit
* NOTE: In the pictures below Internet Explorer 8 and the advanced version (AJAX) of the Merit Email system will be used to
illustrate the steps. Other browsers will work as does Merit’s standard version (the standard version is a different interface for
the email system designed to work faster on older computers) However, there will be differences in the appearance of the
mail system and the location of the controls to export your data. If possible use Internet Explorer (IE) and the AJAX interface
to do this process*
Begin by accessing the internet and navigating to the login page for your Marygrove Merit Mail account.
1. On the login screen enter your username and password in the appropriate boxes. Below where you have entered you
username and password you will see a box labeled “Version”. Click on this box and from the drop-down list of options