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Gmail for Beginners
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/ November 11, 2008 / 2:53 min.
Adding and importing contacts
Now that we've created our Gmail account, we can start adding contacts so that people we email often will appear when we type the first few letters of their name into the To: bar. We can also import our contacts from another email program. See our tutorial on exporting contacts from Outlook Express.
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If you have your contacts stored in another email program, use that email service or software to export your contacts. Choose to export your contacts as a .csv file. Follow this example for exporting contacts from Outlook Express. The tips offered are specific to Outlook Express but apply to many email clients and online services.
- Back in Gmail, click on Contacts in the left-hand navigation and on the page that loads, select Import in the upper right hand corner. Browse to the .csv file containing your contacts and click Import.
- Add contacts manually by selecting the add new contact icon in the upper left corner of the Contacts window and entering in the appropriate information.
- To add a photo to associate with a contact, click on Add a picture in the box in the top right of the screen, browse to the photo on your computer and crop it, click Apply changes and you're done.
- As you begin using your Gmail account, the Suggested Contacts list on the left will begin to fill up with people you've emailed. You can add these Suggested Contacts to your own contact list by selecting them and clicking on Move to My Contacts.
- Use the search bar in My Contacts to quickly and easily sort through your contacts.
- Back in Gmail, click on Contacts in the left-hand navigation and on the page that loads, select Import in the upper right hand corner. Browse to the .csv file containing your contacts and click Import.
- Add contacts manually by selecting the add new contact icon in the upper left corner of the Contacts window and entering in the appropriate information.
- To add a photo to associate with a contact, click on Add a picture in the box in the top right of the screen, browse to the photo on your computer and crop it, click Apply changes and you're done.
- As you begin using your Gmail account, the Suggested Contacts list on the left will begin to fill up with people you've emailed. You can add these Suggested Contacts to your own contact list by selecting them and clicking on Move to My Contacts.
- Use the search bar in My Contacts to quickly and easily sort through your contacts.
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