Gmail beefs up its contact manager
Now when you import contacts in CSV format from Outlook, Outlook Express, Hotmail, or Yahoo, or vCard format from OS X address book, the additional information should be copied over correctly. Google added these features to its standalone contact manager a while back, but the integration with Gmail is a welcome addition.
Of course, if you've already imported a few thousand contacts from your Outlook Address book, you're out of luck unless you want to delete all of your Gmail contacts and start again from scratch.
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MWD said 5:31PM on 6-17-2009
Hoping for some Thunderbird support. Zindus remains, in my experience, a kludgy option.
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ddub said 6:48PM on 6-17-2009
my gmail contacts looks nothing like that? i've got no birthday spots and all that. How'd you get that. is there a setting?
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horsethiefbandit said 8:46PM on 6-17-2009
Now if only the birthday field would sync up with Google Calendar ...
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Kyle said 8:19AM on 6-18-2009
Yawn... Wake me when gmail gets pushed to my iphone...
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Malaycobra said 9:49AM on 6-18-2009
Turn on IMAP in settings, set up your iphone and you're good to go.
Alastair said 8:19AM on 6-18-2009
Er ... mine was like that last night but now birthday option has completely gone! I agree with horsethiefbandit - sync it to google calendar! (but don't steal horses)
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Richard said 8:19AM on 6-18-2009
I tried it yesterday and it works quite well. The only major issue I found is that it reported all the email addresses as "other". It doesn't seem to recognise the difference between primary and secondary emails.
Now all we need is two way syncing between Outlook contacts, support for the pictures of contacts and embedded mini google maps of the home and business addresses and i'd be a happy bloke.
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megamike43 said 8:38AM on 6-18-2009
I wish gmail email contacts were similar to thunderbird or yahoo email
in which you could add email addresses from a list instead of the system that gmail is presently set up
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Elizabeth said 12:25PM on 7-01-2009
I know gmail is free, but there are affordable Contact managers out there. OfficeClip Contact Manager has had the features that Google didnt, like fields for birth dates, web sites, etc.
You guys may want to check this out:
http://www.officeclip.com/web/contact_manager/home.html
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hawaii4me2009.yahoo.com said 5:18PM on 8-17-2009
I am new to gmail. Used to have Yahoo. How does one get addresses from the address book into an e-mail? Surely not by typing each letter. I have been copying and pasting but there must be a better/easier way. Thxs, Lil
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mrluckey said 8:24PM on 9-04-2009
I can't get this to work. I export from Outlook into a .cvs windows file and then I go diligently through the mapping of the fields and when I finish and bring it into GMAIL I get "unnamed contact" with nearly all the fields from outlook ending up in the notes section. Frustrating.
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