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Setting an account picture for "other" accounts when using the Gmail mobile app
Try this!
It worked for me - although the email address I used was a forwarded business email address (eg. firstname@mybusiness.com) forwarded to my name@gmail.com account - but it might work with ...
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How do I force merge contacts in Google Contacts?
Go to Contacts. Search so that you can see both/all of the contacts you want to merge on the one results screen.
Click the checkbox on the left hand size of the screen for the contacts you want to ...
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How to block a set of related email addresses in Gmail
Instead of separating multiple email addresses with a comma, you should separate them with OR, as per this Gmail help document.
Matches: from:(s******9@icloud.com OR s*******9@gmail.com OR s*******m@...
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Send email to Google contact group with Inbox
It still isn't a feature in Inbox, unfortunately.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!searchin/gmail/inbox$20group$20email/gmail/U-L6Qsj68gw/oEv7uxiBvuEJ
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Disable Google Contacts Preview
In the side menu click More → Leave the Contacts preview you will be taken to old Google contacts.
Now the menu is More → Switch to the old version
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In Gmail, when creating a group, how can I specify which email address to use for a contact with multiple email addresses?
The problem is summed up in the postscript to this post by Drummond Reed here:
Postscript: logging into my personal Gmail account tonight, I noticed they have a new UI for Contacts. And guess what? ...
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Google Contacts date format for birthdays, without the year, which date formats work?
I'm using the new(er) Google Contacts. This is what I found in my tests. (Note that I'm using U.S. locale dates, i.e., mm/dd. Your results will likely depend on how dates are formatted in your locale.)...
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What are "other contacts" in the new Google Contacts?
"Other Contacts" consists of:
Contacts you've sent email messages to that weren't already in "My Contacts", if you still have that setting on in Gmail. (Stop Gmail from automatically creating ...
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Advanced search in Google Contacts
YES ... but, not using Google Contacts itself. On my computer, I have Google Contacts sync'd with MS Outlook, which can do a thorough search of the data in my contacts. I also use Lookeen, which can ...
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What is the maximum number of phone numbers per one contact in Gmail?
According to Google support a contact can have up to 500 fields. I just tested this by creating a CSV file with the following fields (which seem to be required for it to import):
Name
Family Name
...
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Making a Contact Group in Gmail from an email
Open the Gmail conversation/message.
At the right of the recipients fields, click the "Show details" dropdown button.
Copy the list of addresses.
Go to the Google / Gmail contacts manager.
If the ...
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Deprecate, not delete, old addresses in Google Contacts
I put quotation marks around the deprecated email addresses. This doesn't prevent Google from autofilling them in the To: box but you can easily spot and avoid them.
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Search for emails from contacts with multiple email addresses
You could write directly the search terms as was suggested in the Alex answer but also Gmail could write if for you.
from:(johndoe@example.com OR johndoe@example.de)
OR
from:(johndoe@example.com |...
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Google Calendar guest email autocomplete stopped working
Disabling the Chrome extension "Disconnect" did the trick for me.
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How do I force merge contacts in Google Contacts?
Go to https://contacts.google.com/
Select contacts to merge &
Click Branch Sign as shown in figure below:
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Contacts in new look Gmail 2018
Click 9 dots top right (Google apps)
If you don't see "Contacts", click "More"
You can change the place of "Contants" on this dropdown by draging the icon
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How to add GPS coordinates instead of address in new Google Contacts
Use the plus code of the location as the address, while still filling in the city and the country.
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Gmail contacts: With a limit of 250 per page, how do I view page 2 and further?
At the top right I have forward and back arrows that select 250 at a time:
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Why does Gmail not find email addresses that I've emailed before?
Must I add that address as a contact before Gmail can search it?
It would seem so.
You've probably turned off this setting, in order to keep Gmail from adding just anybody to your contacts.
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Deprecate, not delete, old addresses in Google Contacts
No, there's no way to include an email address as an email address without having it appear as an option when addressing a message.
You can move the email address to the "Notes" field, so you'll be ...
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How to download all directory contacts?
Apologies for the late answer, but I have recently been wanting to accomplish this too.
I used the latest version of Google Contacts at the time of writing, and the density layout of "Compact&...
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Remove Google+ profile from Gmail contact?
This post helped me with the same problem: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/guDL_NmcTk4
Basically, I used the old Contacts UI to change contact name.
Open Gmail Contacts
On the ...
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Can I make Gmail use the nickname as the primary method of autocompleting contacts?
You may have already found this on your own and it's possible that it's only a recent addition to Gmail and contact.
There's now a Label option in Contacts.
I've just confirmed that you can assign an ...
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New Gmail contacts in Android
The new Google Contacts features at this time are only for the web interface. Regarding the "contacts has been cleaned", the new Google Contacts doesn't display the contacts that only have an email ...
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Matching batches of names to contact emails
In Gmail, multiple contacts are separated by commas. If I needed to send an email to recipients
andrewW@gmail.com, bigStackuser@gmail.com, support@gmail.com
I would write them exactly as such in ...
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Remove Google+ profile from Gmail contact?
Solution:
Just go to the linked Google+ profile and set "Block profile" (next to "About me").
Reload your Contacts-Page.
Now there's no connection between your contact and the wrong Google+ profile.
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Remove Google+ profile from Gmail contact?
The other suggestions did not work for me. I could only make it work by doing the following:
Block the person's Google profile: open Google+ (https://plus.google.com),
open the profile of the person ...
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