7 days ago - In early March, Microsoft announced that it would add Google Calendar and Contacts support to the Mac version of Outlook 2016. And although. Outlook for Mac has long supported connecting to and managing your Gmail. With these updates, Outlook will now also sync your Google Calendars and Contacts. The experience will be very similar to what you are familiar with in Outlook today, with support for all the core actions—such as add, delete, edit time and location.
Outlook and Gmail have separate address books. They don’t sync, which means that if you change your contacts in one or the other, then you have one address book that remains unchanged. Here’s how to keep your address books synced with free, open-source software. It’s really. The problem is, it’s a one-time thing. If you make a change to your Outlook contacts, if your friend changes their e-mail address or phone number, or you add or remove a contact, then you have to change it in your Gmail.
And, if you make changes in Gmail, then they won’t be reflected in Outlook. RELATED: You see the problem?
It’s not one without a solution however, with, you can keep your Outlook and Gmail contacts in check. If you make a change to one then you can use GO Contact Sync Mod to update the other, quickly, conveniently, and almost effortlessly. Did We Mention it’s Open Source? GO Contact Sync Mod doesn’t try any funny stuff. It’s open source, so it’s free to use, and doesn’t have toolbars or spyware spoiling the experience. Before you can install GO Contact Sync Mod, you need to. Then you can and start keeping your Gmail and Outlook contacts in perfect harmony.
When you first open GO Contact Sync Mod, you’ll need to enter you Google account username and password before you can sync anything. Remember, if you’ve got two-factor authentication enabled on your Gmail account, you will have to use an app-specific password. Some of you probably have two or more Google accounts. If you want to sync those with GO Contact Sync Mod, you create profiles. Under the sync options, you want to click the “sync profile” dropdown menu and then “add new profile.” This will open the configuration manager. The options here are very simple.
If you’ve already entered your login information, click “add” to create a new profile using that username/password combination. The “edit” button merely lets you rename your profile. Looking at the sync options, you can select, which Outlook contacts to sync (if you have more than one Outlook e-mail account and address book), choose whether to sync deleted contacts, and whether the program prompts you when deleting contacts from your destination address book.
Note, in addition to contacts, you can also sync your notes and appointments. If you have “prompt deletion” selected, you will be asked how you want to proceed. For example, in this screenshot, an Outlook contact has been previously deleted. GO Contact Sync Mod prompts us whether we want to keep the Google contact or delete it too. Below the sync options are some important configuration settings.
Though these options have check boxes beside each, you can only choose one. By default, the program will prompt you if you want to merge any duplicate contacts, or you can decide whether Outlook wins or Google wins the merge operation.
Finally, you can select which way syncs are performed – either Outlook to Google or Google to Outlook. The automation settings let you choose whether program runs at startup, and if it automatically syncs. If you choose the auto sync option, the sync interval can then be set.
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It’s set to sync every two hours by default. If you select “report sync result in system tray,” a report will pop up from the GO Contact Sync Mod system tray icon.
You may have also noticed the sync details and log. With this, if there are any errors reported, you can see what they are and make the necessary fixes. Finally, right-click on the system tray icon to execute a manual sync, show, hide, or exit the program.
As you can see, using GO Contact Sync Mod is whole lot easier than previously. Unfortunately, it only works with Gmail, so if you use another e-mail service or applicatoin, then the manual method might be your only recourse. That said, GO Contact Sync Mod will save Gmail users a lot of time and effort when it comes to maintaining and syncing contacts between it and Outlook.
The Ultimate Guide to Office 365 If you use Outlook 2013/2016 or the Outlook Web App, it’s easy to import contacts from other email services. If you’ve moved from, from Google Apps for Work to Office 365 for Business, or you’re just using both email clients and want to have the same contacts in both, you can follow the video above or the instructions below. To export Gmail contacts:.
From your Gmail account, click Gmail - Contacts. Click More. Click Export. Select the contact group you wish to export. Select the export format Outlook CSV format (for importing into Outlook or another application).
Click Export. When prompted, click Save as, and browse to a location to save the file. To import from Outlook 2013 or 2016:. From the FILE tab, select Open & Export.
Select Import/Export. In the Import and Export Wizard, select Import from another program or file. Click Next. Select Comma Separated Values. Click Next. In the Import a File box, browse to and select the.csv file you saved your Gmail contacts to.
Select Replace duplicates with items imported, Allow duplicates to be created, or Do not import duplicate items. Click Next.
In the folder list, select the contacts folder where you want to import your contacts to, and click Next. Click Finish. To import from Outlook Web App:. Select People from the app launcher. Select the settings gear, them click Options.
Select Import contacts under People. Click Browse and select the.csv file you saved your Gmail contacts to.
Click Import. For instructions on migrating contacts from Yahoo!, Outlook.com, Mozilla Thunderbird, or a desktop version of Outlook,.