This is such a simple question I can’t believe I’m asking it! Being a huge gmail fan since switching from hotmail I can’t find out how to save the sender’s address to my contcats list other than copying and pasting the address having gone to contaxts and create a new contact. Surely the good people at google have a one click solution for me that I just can’t find! Your help is greatly appreciated.
Your confusion is understandable, because like so many features in Google’s splendid Gmail service, what you seek is hidden under the innocuously labeled More options link.
To accomplish what you seek, simply open up a message from the sender who is to be memorialized in your address book. The head of the message will look like this message from my friend Scott Allen:
Click on “More options”, though, and suddenly there’s a world of choices:
You can see the option you want: Add sender to contacts list. Assuming everything works properly — and it should — you’ll now see a status message above the email:
That’s all there is to it. Hope that helps you figure the “one click” solution!
None of these answers resolve the ‘add contact’ problem with the html version of gmail.
I have the swedish version of gmail and there it is absolutely impossible to find a solution to this and many with me react the same.
Under the ” more options” ( in swedish “Mer”) where this option and the pop up of options starting with reply should come up, neither there is such an option to be found in the scroll down and neither any options at all comes up under the name.
I have carefully gone through all options but cannot find any solution to this. Strange, but yes Sweden is a strange country, that many know…
I’ve been trying to add contacts on my contact list since i signed to dis gmail but still can’t find way to add…
To add new contact on Gmail, switch to “Standard View” [located at top of page] and it is plane as day.
You will see “contacts” at upper left of page.
I found it to be quite a chore on the New Version of Gmail.
Pass on the good news people.
with ONE click – you can “ADD A GOOGLE GMAIL SENDER TO MY CONTACT LIST ADDRESS BOOK?” or email addresses on CC and Bcc – (I had the same question and clicked/hover around. And it’s right there in front of my face!)I’m using Chrome Version 24.0.1312.57 m
– In your main Inbox (or All Mail, Sent Mail, …) hover your cursor on the sender (you have to open the actual email if you want to add cc and Bcc addresses) and
– a small popup window that looks similar to Google+ will show up,
– then click on “Add to Contacts” at bottom left – that’s it. It’ll take you to Contacts folder to add other info..phone #, address, etc..
– If you’ve already added that contact, the popup window will show “Contact Info” instead.
Found Contacts. Found Other Contacts. Added person to My Contacts. But I’m surprised it should be such a UX nightmare. It has to be easier than this!
Bill, on the top left of your Gmail pages it says “Gmail” and has a tiny triangle just to the right of the word. Click on the triangle. Voila! Now you can get to Contacts. 🙂
WTF!!! Where is Contacts??? If I can’t add a contact I am leaving gmail and going back to my private mail.
Gmail… Get it together. You have finally made gmail, once great, now a pain in the ass!
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This is all there is. No “add contact” to be found.
On the android tablet, in gmail, click on the email of the person u want to add. Then hold your finger down on the picture box to the left of the person name in the email header. Then select add to contacts.
Worthless advice. There is no “more options” option anywhere on my g-mail page.
What happened to “Address Book” and “add contact”? I can’t add a new contact whom I have not received an email. Perhaps I forgot but I just can’t seem to add a new contact.
What is wrong with Google that they do not make CONTACTS an obvious selection for a freakin’ mail application? Irritating beyond belief. They didn’t forget to put advertisements on the page, did they?
hi,
some days ago i came to this page for my question “how can i add a contact to my Gmail contacts?”
because i can’t see “more options” and “add sender” or all such this options;
i read most of people message but never couldn’t add new contact to my contacts, now i have go back to this page for answer this questions with my new solution!
just with 3 click.
sign in with Google Talk(the messenger of google) and invite the email address that you want to add to your contact (such gmail, ymail or other) and go to gmail and see your new contact in your contacts!
1) sign in on goolge talk
2) click add(invite) button
3) type the email address
4) click next for type your message
5) click finish
i hope useful for all.
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That works if the sender is the person you want to add. However, I have received mail with email addresses within the message. I can’t figure out a way to add those except by creating a new contact. Any thoughts?? Thanks.
No no and no. none of those options are there.
android lg phone. super crappy
I do not have the more options What do I do now to add a contact?
LOL at this trail. Responding does add the email address to “other contacts” list. You can go to contacts and go to the bottom and see all the “other contacts” and you can check and add them to My Contacts. You can also find folks in “other comments” when you do a search, although they won’t auto appear under type forward function.
In addition, when added gmail contacts does not have a way of labeling the email by default, like home or work or even choosing that. When you import a large # of contacts, it will label them as “main”.
This means my gmail contacts unlabeled or labeled Main will not sync with the mac world and my iphone. You must manually go in and change the so they will sync. I don’t think I have to explain the reason for that 🙂
Hey google, we are watching you too!
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I do not open my gmail account
log into gmail->you will find google logo at top left with search box.->under google logo you can find gmail logo with a down arrow besides gmail. click that down arrow and there the contact is. hurahhh
I still don’t see an easier way to add a contact. There is more options dropdown but there’s no option to add a contact in there. I’ve searched for it everywhere, with no avail.
Copy the contact details from your email ctrl:c
Follow the suggestions above to either add a NEW contact, or add details to an existing contact.
Paste ctrl:v the details into the Notes section of the contact details.
From there, just copy and paste the relevant details into the appropriate fields as required.
I am still having trouble saving my contacts from an email…Hence why I am on this blog SMH. Gmail needs to do better. I got off Yahoo because I was getting so much SPAM, but I think I’d rather deal with a user friendly engine with spam than Gmail which sucks:(
In the bottom left of my screen under ‘Chat and SMS I have a list of names.If you just hover over a name a box with details appears, in the bottom right is a ‘More’ go to that and a menu box will appear. The top option is ‘Contact Details’, click on that and a new window will appear for you to edit the details BUT in the top left is the ‘NEW CONTACT’ which you are searching for! There should be an easier way! CJ
I want to add a Contact, but cannot get the word Contact to appear above my current list. How can I achieve this? Is there a way to go back to the old version since I don’t like the new version gmail setup?
This is idiotic, they spend millions of dollars forcing people in crappy javascript email. Which is slow, prone to lock up at least one of your cpu cores, and a privacy and security risk. Not to mention you must keep buying new devices to render the scripts, use crappy browsers that lock up the OS like Chrome.
Life was so much easier before advent of flash and javascript. At least there are enough email and streaming video sites that avoid js and flash that I can get even the oldest mashines to be productive. While Chrome and Facebook will choke up even a 3 ghz broad band router and machine with constant code execution in crappy languages.
Disable js, flash, and chrome (the 40+instance browser) and watch how much smoother your machine runs and how much faster the isp will be. Save the bandwidth for netflix, who does video right–avoids flash.
I’m forced to use the basic HTML version of Gmail because of occasional shaping by ISP for Gmail at times and I’m unable to find anywhere with any method I can add a contact who I’ve never sent to or received email from when shaped.
The only way I could get my curent contacts into Gmail/contacts was to import them for yahoo and too bad if I want to add any new ones.
Shame on you Google and Gmail!
For the “new look” gmail it is easy to add a contact that you have not sent nor received an email from at the time you want to add them.
1. Look in the upper left corner of the screen. Right under the logo, click on Mail (with a down arrow next to it).
2. Select “Contacts”
3. Above the contact list there are three icons. select the person with a + sign next to them.
4. Type in contact info.
YAY!
On my screen in the upper left corner under the logo I see Gmail (NOT Mail). When I select Contacts, I get Google’s new and mystifying “list” BUT there are NO icons above it. Has nobody at Google ever heard the saying “if it isn’t broke don’t fix it”.
Hi. I am finding the new gmail edition very difficult and not the improvement google had hoped for. Is anyone else having problems? I cannot find my contact list. When I attempted to go to the gear icon and temporarily revert to the “old” gmail format, I did not have that option. Can you tell me how to find my contact list and if it is possible to revert back. I don’t even know how I ended up with this new version in the first place. all other users in my home still have the old version. Help :/
It all seems nice, except one thing: on my gmail page, I don’t even see any “Contact” button or anything similar. Also, all most important mail commands are represented as strange pictures and spreaded all over the page.