Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Importing MS Outlook Address to Gmail account

In Outlook, on the File menu, click Import and Export.

Click Export to a file, and then click Next.

Click Comma Separated Value (DOS), and then click Next.

In the folder list, click the contacts folder you want to export, and then click Next.

Choose a location on your computer to temporarily save the file.

Note You can delete this file after your contacts are imported into Google Gmail.
Type a name for the exported file, and then click OK.
Click Next.

To add or remove fields to determine the way the contact information is saved in the new imported file, click Map Custom Fields.
The Map Custom Fields button in the Export to a File dialog box might not be available when you try to import data from another program or file. In the The following actions will be performed box, select the Export check box, and then the Map Custom Fields button is available.

Additional help on mapping custom fields
In the From box, drag the field that you want to convert onto the Outlook field that is listed in the To box.

Note The Name field doesn't appear in the To box, because Outlook reserves the first row of a named range or field names. If the range that you import does not contain field names, the first row of data will be interpreted as field names and will not be imported as data. To make sure that all of the data in the named range
is imported, use the first row for field names.

To see additional records in the From box, click Previous or Next.

To remove all mapping, click Clear Map.

To reset the original mapping, click Default Map.

To display additional fields in the To box, click the plus sign (+) next to the field. For example, to display the Business Street and Business City fields, click the plus sign (+) next to Business Address.

Click Finish

Log on to your Google Gmail account.

In the left column, click Contacts.

On the right side of your screen, above the message count, click Import.

Under Import Contacts, click Browse.

Select the file you exported in step 9.

Click Open.

Click Import Contacts.

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