Hot answers tagged google-contacts
10
Gmail shows a preview of the messages that the filter will apply to during the filter setup I'd encourage you to review the results in the future to make sure they are what you expect. Unfortunately at this time it is not possible to revert a filter after creation, but I'm passing along your feedback. If you haven't already, make sure to delete that filter ...
9
Contacts
Click the New Group button: "+" with 2 people.
Give it a name and click ok.
Go back to My Contacts (or whichever grouping is appropriate) and select users.
On the right, click Groups and select the group to add to.
Compose an email and use the group name in the To field
9
Gmail will first suggest the addresses you send mail to most often.
If there is an email address you don't want at the top of the autocomplete popup, remove that email address from the contact. Make sure the changes save, then add the email address back to the contact. This should be sufficient to reset the priority for that email address.
8
There's currently no way to switch off the automatic addition of all contacts. It's been something users have been asking for pretty much since the start.
The best thing to do right now is to just filter out the auto-added ones.. go to http://www.google.com/contacts and in the search box put a space, then hit enter. That will give you a list split into My ...
7
There is really no good contact sharing. There is a global contacts list for your domain but it cannot be managed through the Google interfaces. It can be used via a custom program using the contacts API, and there are some 3rd party tools that are good. One recommendation is called SherpaTools, its in the market place for free.
I work as a Google Apps ...
6
Go to GMail account one and switch to contacts view
Mark the contacts you want to export
Select "export" and then "Selected contacts (n)" (n is the number of contacts you're exporting)
Select Google CSV format and export
Log out of this account and log in to the second Gmail account. Switch to contacts view
Import the file you saved at step 4
Not drag and ...
6
That feature/category is gone for a while. Now your contacts are grouped into My contacts and Other contacts plus all the groups you have created.
All Contacts used to contain your contacts plus other contacts, which are contacts that you emailed but you didn't add to your contact list.
6
At the bottom of the screen is a link to "older version", which points to https://www.google.com/contacts_v1
So, the old version is still around, at least for a little while.
I would expect that there may be some incompatibilities with the new contact manager (some fields not supported for instance; Google+ Circles are definitely not there) and that they ...
5
There doesn't seem to be a way of dong this in Google Contacts, but you can do it when you access the contacts through GMail.
If you click the "Contacts" link in the upper left when in mail (under the "Mail" link), you can see a full list of your contacts:
On the right hand side, it shows you the groups that each contact is in:
Contacts that are in no ...
5
It appears that Google Contacts is one of the services which does not have a sharing option, but does have a data transfer option.
Transferring data between two Google accounts would involve exporting and importing.
Update: One alternative would be to set up a Google Apps account and use one of the workarounds to share contact information.
5
You can't. Google adds everyone you respond to under All Contacts, from there though you must explicitly click the contact and use the Move to My Contacts in order to add them to your list. In short there are two types of contacts:
Google's All Contacts which has everyone you ever wrote to
And, yours My Contacts, which has only those you explicitly add.
...
4
EDIT: I am updating this answer because as of 18 Jan 2012 Google has just announced that:
The standalone Contacts service now has the same interface and
features that are currently available in Contacts inside of Gmail.
Make sure you use the contacts view available from GMail and NOT the one at contacts.google.com which has not been updated by Google ...
4
When you set up a birthday for a contact, you can see it in your Google Calendar by showing the birthday calendar.
To enable the birthday calendar, do the following:
Settings > Calendar Settings
Choose the Calendars tab
Browse interesting calendars >>
Choose the More tab
Select Subscribe on the Contacts' birthdays and events calendar.
Now whenever you ...
4
You should have a look at Lifehacker full guide to clean up Gmail Contacts.
Some topics they cover that could help you:
clean up duplicates
export and import csv
I'd say that for 200 contacts, the easiest way is to:
export to CSV
keep the contacts you want (delete the unwanted rows)
delete all your gmail contacts
import the clean and fresh CSV to ...
4
The easiest way to accomplish this would be to use Conxt.
All you have to do is start your free account and auto-import from gmail (and other platforms). Most of the duplicates will be auto-merged during this import process. No data is lost during this. Then, starting at that point, simply check the checkbox next to the ones you wish to delete and click ...
3
The export, clean up, and reimport fresh option is usually the easiest way to handle bulk editing of contacts.
The problem you'll run into with doing this is if you remove the contacts from your Contact list then anything linked to them will be gone even if you reimport the exact same information. An example would be your chat and google reader shares will ...
3
No. Google currently does not have that feature.
Only search prefix is allowed.
The Google help page says,
You can use prefixes.
You can search by a person's first and/or last name.
You'll see matching results as you type
You can search for contacts by phone number, or notes you've entered
about them.
You can search by domain1 or username.
Also so ...
3
I don't think Google supports this feature, but I found a workaround from 2008 that might still work:
Create the group in My Contacts
Compose an email to said group
Copy the "To:" field
Paste into the "Convert" textbox here
Copy the the "Convert" output into a new filter
Try it and let us know if it does what you're looking for.
3
It doesn't seem (according to how Google has it) nickname has much use outside of the Contacts page. It's just an extra bit of fluff to the contact information currently. There have been many cases of users complaining of change from within the name field itself to a separate entity called nickname.
Your best option (while not great by any means) currently ...
3
Removing the access to Google wasn't enough. Facebook still stores these contacts, and you have to request to delete them.
This page is available through a custom URL and I couldn't find it in the Help Center.
https://www.facebook.com/contact_importer/remove_uploads.php
All I had to do is click "Remove" here …
After a few minutes, my imported ...
3
Use the export function to export your contacts, then the import function to do the same. If you have contact sharing turned on within your domain you should be able to export your contact listing from any of the @domain1.com accounts and import them to an account on @domain2.com.
I am unaware of a synchronizing feature that would bridge your two domains. ...
3
I just deleted one of these phantom contacts. As I recall, I was in Gmail several weeks ago and a chat request from some unknown person appeared. Of course I declined this apparent chat-spam request, but I think that is how the contact was added to the scrolling 'people list' in the area under the Compose and folders block. As in your case, the contact never ...
3
I have no inside information on how Twitter calculates 'user affinity'...but it seems likely to me that it's a 'two-way street' problem.
By that I mean, even if you haven't used Twitter's Find My Friends feature, a number of people who have you in their address book may have used that same feature to import their Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail contacts. With the info ...
3
With the delegate option that's possible:
To delegate your contacts:
Go to Google Contacts.
Click the More pulldown menu immediately above your contacts list and select Manage Delegation Settings.
In the Add people text box, enter the email addresses of the users you wish to share your contacts.
Click Share & save to finish granting ...
3
Signatures are tied to the from: address you're using. You can use so-called "plus addressing" to define multiple different addresses that are actually just your address and assign signatures to each.
Here's an example:
Go to Settings | Accounts and Import
Click "Add another email address you own"
In the Email address: field, put username+mom@gmail.com
...
3
I tried it out myself in creating a new contact group and moving my contacts around a bit on Google Contacts. I did notice a few things:
For a new contact created through the Google Contacts interface (not linked to any Google+) account, you can only group it into the Google Contact groups and not into the Google+ circles。
For a contact via your Google+ ...
3
You cannot add a Google Contacts group to another group directly. Groups do not nest (kind of like how Gmail labels do not nest if you have not activated nesting in Labs). However, we don't need to add users to BIG one-by-one either. You have a couple options, actually.
The Easy Way
The most direct, and probably easiest for most circumstances, is to ...
2
There is an easyer way! And yes, I tried Soocial and Plaxo wich did not work as I likes and you can check out how I set it up on my blog.
If you go to http://memotoo.com and setup an account you can have your Outlook contacts synced using one of the provided applications to that service. They will then sync their server with Google and you get all of your ...
2
What was gmail choking on for you? My only beef so far has been that it downgrades the quality of my contact pictures, but since most other solutions don't even sync them, I'm happy enough.
I think Google contacts is great, particularly if you use gmail or have an iphone:
It's free
It's accessible from anywhere, and well integrated into gmail, etc.
It ...
2
The previous answers are no longer correct.
On the General tab under Settings is Create contacts for auto-complete:
When I send a message to a new person, add them to Other Contacts so that I can auto-complete to them next time
I'll add contacts myself
Screen shot:
The second option will prevent Gmail from auto-creating contacts for you.
This was one ...
Only top voted, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible
