We know that Lotus Notes and Outlook are two important email clients which are broadly used in many small as well as large scale enterprises. Since Outlook seems to be more interactive and feasible, it is highly preferred by the users compared to Notes. When you feel the need to convert your email messaging system from Lotus Notes to Outlook, you can carry on a simple procedure to do it. To migrate your Lotus Notes contacts to Outlook 2003, just follow the steps given below:

1. In Lotus Notes, export your contacts to a tab-delimited file.

2. Start Outlook 2003.

3. On the File menu, click Import and Export.

4. Click Import from another program or file, and then click Next.

5. Click Comma Separated Values (Windows), and then click Next.

6. Click Browse.

7. In the File name box, type ., and then click OK.

8. Click the file that you created in step 1, and then click OK.

9. Click Next.

10. Click the Contacts folder, and then click Next.

Under The following actions will be performed, confirm that the correct files are listed. Then, click Map Custom Fields to map the contact fields that you want to use.

11. Click Finish.

Once you execute these steps, your contacts will be migrated from Lotus Notes to MS Outlook. Also, while performing manual Domino to Exchange conversion, some common issues may come up causing inaccessibility in emails. The symptoms that you may usually face are as follows:

In MS Outlook 2007, when you try to paste a Lotus Notes link into the body of a new email message, the link does not become clickable. You cannot click the link and proceed with further action due to synchronization problem between Notes and Outlook. On the other hand, it may also happen that you receive an email message from an Outlook 2003 user which contains a Lotus Notes link. When you open the message in Outlook 2007, the link is not clickable. Things also come to you like you try to paste a Notes link into a MS Word 2007 document but the link is not clickable.

This thing happens when you paste a Lotus Notes link into new Rich Text messages in Outlook 2007 or you try to open a Notes link that you have received in Outlook 2003 Rich Text message in Outlook 2007. To fix this problem you can open the message in new window by double- clicking it. Then if you double click on the link you can open Notes link in Outlook 2007.

The probability of losing data after Notes to Outlook conversion depends on the process of migration and the type of tool that you are using for the conversion. Instead of manual conversion technique, you should choose a reliable third party converter software that will efficiently perform Lotus Notes to Exchange migration.

Kernel for NSF to PST is a renowned converter utility that can easily migrate all Lotus Notes elements to MS Outlook without distorting any single bit of Notes message.