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Export your address book from Google's Gmail?

Dave, on my gmail account on my page there are no words which say export contacts and i have seen a picture on google of where abouts it is supposed to be on the page but it simply isnt there. i no u can also export doing excel and stuff but that is so much easier and its quite fustrating. thanks

Dave's Answer:

You're asking about a very new feature of Gmail that's easy to use, once you figure out where it's hidden...

The first step is to log in to your Gmail account and notice that down the left side of the screen is a list of your folders (Inbox, Starred, Sent Mail, etc) and, just below it, Contacts. Click on that.

Now you're looking at a page that shows you a list of frequently mailed contacts and has a second tab for All Contacts. On the top of that page, you'll see this:

Notice the rightmost option: export. Click on that and you'll see a helpful pop-up window:

The rest of this process I'll leave as, um, an exercise for the reader. :-)

Hope that gets you traveling in the right direction!

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Hi, Do you have any advice as to how I can get my gmail contact list into the osX address book app?

Thanks

Posted by: nick at December 20, 2005 5:35 PM

I currently synchronize Microsoft Outlook Contacts to my Treo seamlessly, BUT I understand that the basic $150 version of Office 2007 that I will be getting on my new Dell will NO longer include Outlook.

I am trying to simplify what's stored on my computer using more 'web based' applications, so I am not interested in buying and maintaing one more program such as Lotus Notes.

MY QUESTION:
Do you know if there is a list of all the programs where I can maintain my contacts / address book, THAT ALSO synchronizes seamlessly (because if I have to do any more than touch the synch button on my Treo cable I'll never bother synching)?

I've been researching on line for the past hour, but to no avail. Please send a response to my e-mail, as I'm not sure I would know wher to look for the answer on your web site.

Thank you very much,

Posted by: Jonathan at March 24, 2007 2:11 PM

I am trying to simplify what's stored on my computer using more 'web based' applications, so I am not interested in buying and maintaing one more program such as Lotus Notes.

I've been researching on line for the past hour, but to no avail. Please send a response to my e-mail, as I'm not sure I would know wher to look for the answer on your web site.

Thank you very much,

Posted by: Jonathan at March 24, 2007 2:13 PM

I looked up your page, through Google, to find out how to export my gmail addressbook. I got the answer. And tried it. And it actually worked.

Many many thanks.

GOD bless you.

partha

PS I live in india.

Posted by: Partha at March 9, 2008 6:05 AM

Hi Dave,
Maybe you have the answer to my question: Is there any way to have every calendar entry I make on Ical (Apple) on a day to day basis, automatically update my Gmail calendar? If so, please tell me how to do it?
Thank you,
Richard

Posted by: richard hirsch at May 9, 2008 1:26 PM

Wow, I can't believe I starred at my gmail account for 10 min trying to figure out how to export my address book and found your page, followed directions and done in 2 seconds ! Thanks for the great tip!

Posted by: Connie at May 21, 2008 1:08 PM

Dave,
I saved my Outlook address book to a CSV format and imported to Gmail contacts. The problem is that Gmail contacts does not recognize my CSV fields and reads all data as notes. What gives?

Posted by: Guy at December 16, 2008 6:17 AM

Hi -- I tried the Google contact export function, though specifying the VCF format for Address Book so I could update contacts on my Mac. However, when I opened the updated Google VCF file on my Mac, none of the contacts contained street addresses.

I like having contacts on Google but the only problem is that you can't print them in mailing label format (late holidays cards). If you know of a way to do that, I'll sue it and just ditch Address Book on the Mac. Any advice?

Alice

Posted by: Alice at January 7, 2009 1:49 PM

Unfortunately this doesn't really work if you have turned off automatic addition of contacts (which is essential if you are a heavy Gmail user).

For example, I have 10k+ emails from hundreds of people but only 30 in my 'Suggested contacts'.

Is there any way to export all email addresses from the Mail side?

Posted by: XYZ at January 27, 2009 11:29 AM

the people from gmail are stupid so that they didn't make a such as great feature to export all email addresses from the Mail side

Posted by: smart guy at February 7, 2009 6:40 AM

I have a lot to say, but ...

I have a lot to say, and questions of my own for that matter, but most of all I'd like to say thank you for all your efforts on this Web site by buying you a chai!

I do have a comment, now that you mention it!