Text 23266, 38 rader
Skriven 2006-11-03 15:00:40 av Charles Scaglione (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 23209 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Gmail ?
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On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 20:46:55 -0500, "Alan Zisman -> Charles Scaglione"
<alan@zisman.ca> wrote:

 CS>> The only thing I don't like about GMail is the contact list.  With
 CS>> Hotmail I can import my contact lists from OE or my address book.
 CS>> Maybe there's also an easy way to do it in GMail, I just haven't
 CS>> played with it much to find out.

 AZ> It imports contact lists-- but they have to be in CSV format... (Go to
 AZ> the Contacts page, and you'll see Import and Export links on the right
 AZ> near the top). I believe Outlook (and Outlook Express) can export
 AZ> contacts in CSV-- I was able to export in that format from Apple's
 AZ> Address Book application and import them without problem into Google.

 AZ> It combines first and last name into a single NAME field, however, and
 AZ> sorts them alphabetically... which is a bit of a pain when you have a
 AZ> long list (I have 776 at the moment). Better than trying to scroll long
 AZ> lists sorted by first name is to use the Search Contacts feature. Once I
 AZ> got into that habit, I found it worked well.

 AZ> And I like the way that Gmail uses the contact list when you start to
 AZ> compose a new message... so rather than have to remember your email
 AZ> address (for instance), if I just start to type "Charl..." in the To
 AZ> field, I get a list of all the Charles either in my contacts or in my
 AZ> Inbox, making it easy to select the one I want to email.

Thanks for the tip.  I exported my OE address book last night to a CSV
file and imported it into GMail.  CSV is handy to use because it's
simply a comma delimited text format.  As a matter of fact, I use the
same CSV format when downloading financial data from my bank.  My bank
makes the data available in many formats including MS Money.  However,
my copy of MS Money is too old to support the newer formats but it
does import CSV (and the older QIF).

Regards.

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