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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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Subscribe to commentsMWDJun 17th 2009 5:31PM
Hoping for some Thunderbird support. Zindus remains, in my experience, a kludgy option.
ddubJun 17th 2009 6:48PM
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?
horsethiefbanditJun 17th 2009 8:46PM
Now if only the birthday field would sync up with Google Calendar ...
KyleJun 18th 2009 8:19AM
Yawn... Wake me when gmail gets pushed to my iphone...
MalaycobraJun 18th 2009 9:49AM
Turn on IMAP in settings, set up your iphone and you're good to go.
AlastairJun 18th 2009 8:19AM
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)
RichardJun 18th 2009 8:19AM
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.
megamike43Jun 18th 2009 8:38AM
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
ElizabethJul 1st 2009 12:25PM
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
hawaii4me2009.yahoo.comAug 17th 2009 5:18PM
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
mrluckeySep 4th 2009 8:24PM
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.