How To Import Contacts To Windows 10 Mail

Importing contacts from Windows Mail to Gmail

Written by: on Sunday, July 11th, 2010
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As deject computing continues to cut the tethers holding people to a single desktop or laptop, many users are unaware of ways they can brand this transition hassle-gratis. Expanding on an old GT article, I recently fabricated the switch myself from using Windows Mail (the successor to Outlook Express for Windows Vista and 7) to Spider web-based Chrome every bit my client for my Gmail accounts.

Exporting your contacts from Windows Postal service

Open up Windows Post
Select 'File', then 'Export', and finally 'Windows Contacts…'
Select 'CSV (Comma Separated Values)' and click 'Export' when the 'Export Windows Contacts' window pops upwardly.
Click 'Browse' on the side by side pop up window and select a name (e.thou. "contacts") and location (e.g. desktop) to relieve your contacts.csv file to.

Importing your contacts into Gmail

Open Gmail in your browser.
Click on the 'Contacts' link on the left sidebar.
Click the 'Import' link in the upper right of the next page that appears.
Click the 'Choose File' button.
Select your contacts.csv file from where you saved it on your calculator in the showtime part.
If y'all want to add together these contacts to a specific group, check the box and select the group.
Click the 'Import' push and you are washed.

One trouble with this transfer is that if your Windows Contacts accept more one e-mail address per contact, then extra Gmail contacts will be fabricated and you have to manually transfer those addresses into 1 contact. This method should also piece of work for other email clients, such as Mozilla'southward Thunderbird. If y'all are running into errors, formatting of the .csv file is probably to blame, and assistance to right this tin exist found on the Gmail help forums.

On the flip side, you tin can likewise export Gmail contacts to Windows Postal service/Outlook by using the 'Consign' link in Gmail between the 'Import' and 'Impress' links in the upper right of the contacts page. Exist sure to select the right format. For example, Mac users will probably want to utilize the vCard format.

Accept you lot given up on using but one computer for email? Comments are welcome below.

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