Merge Outlook and Gmail Contacts

Most of your business contacts are probably stored in your company’s computer using Microsoft Outlook. You might want to copy or move these valuable contacts to your Gmail account for better management.

To copy contact list from Microsoft Outlook to Gmail Account, just follow the steps:

1. Open Microsoft Outlook and select File ->Import and Export -> Export to a file and click “Next”.

2. Choose “Comma-separated values (Windows)” and click “Next”.

3. Locate your contact list and click “Next”.

4. Assign a name to the file and save it. The file will be saved in .csv extension.

5. Now log in to your Gmail account.

6. Click on “Contacts” on the left pane and subsequently select “Import” at the top right corner.

7. Click on the “Browse” button and locate the .csv file that you saved earlier.

8. Click on “Import” to start importing your contact.

That’s it. Once the importing process is completed, you will be indicated with the number of contacts added, merged or ignored if there were duplicates.

To copy contact list from Gmail Account to Microsoft Outlook (2003 or 2007), just follow the steps:

1. Login to your Gmail account.

2. Click on “Contacts” on the left pane and subsequently select “Export” at the top right corner.

3. Choose the list of contacts that you want to export. Check the item “Outlook’s CSV format (for importing into Outlook or other application)“.

4. Click the “Export” button. The exported file will be named as “contact.csv” automatically.

5. Open Microsoft Outlook and select File ->Import and Export -> Export to a file and click “Next”.

6. Choose “Comma-separated values (Windows)” and click “Next”.

7. Browse for the file created from Gmail.

8. Click “Next” and choose the destination folder, e.g. Contacts under Personal Folders for your account.

9. Verify the action, and click Finish to complete.

That’s it.

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