Google announced that it has made some changes to Gmail Contacts, increasing the number of fields that it supports to be more in line with those commonly found in other contact managers.
Until these changes, announced yesterday, Gmail Contacts was quite limited in the number of fields that it supported. It didn’t have fields for “web site” or “birthday,” for example, both of which are commonly used in other email clients and contact managers. This meant that if you imported contacts from another program, Gmail would have to use the all-encompassing “notes” field for that extra information. That wasn’t ideal if you did a one-way import, but was especially problematic if you were trying to sync data between Gmail Contacts and another program or device that did support those extra fields. These new fields, as well as being useful in their own right, should make syncing much easier. Unfortunately, if you’ve already imported all your contacts and want to use these fields, you’ll need to wipe your Gmail Contacts and re-import them.
The additional fields have been available in standalone Google Contacts for over a month; it’s surprising that it’s taken this long to roll out these changes to Gmail Contacts, too.
Do you use Gmail Contacts as your primary contact manager?
Guh, still no First/Last names?
I switched my google apps account to premier last week when they started offering sync. It really messed up the contacts in my phone because of no first/last names.
Interesting, I go to google.com/contacts and it’s logged in under my google apps account but none of my contacts from mail are there.
Nevermind, google.com/contacts works. I’m an idiot.
I use Apple Agenda for my contacts, and I sync this with my mobile phone and with gMail.
I also sync with Thunderbird in my laptop. If I modify a contact in the laptop, It’s sure that I will not see it right in Apple Agenda. I hope with this new upgrade I’ll be able to see my contacts correctly in everone of my computers.
How do I alphabetize my contacts, in my gmail acccount?
i give my great thank if you give some chance to contact…
I have imported all of my contacts from yahoo to gmail. I would like to send an email to everyone on my contact list to notify them of the change. WHERE TO I CLICK TO OPEN “CONTACTS” ON THE GMAIL HOME PAGE?
we cant seem to get the facts across,for our issue???.
understand this:when we open our google mail page,as we look down the left side list,we see the word”CONTACT.Then when we click on the word”CONTACT” it opens the google page,to send emails to people.
So next when we look to the left side of the list,we see no names.ATTN; Such as Friends,Family,coworkers,and variuos groop names.
So now when we try and see, those names or groups,that LEFT side, is entirely “BLANK”now no need going off,into some cloud,about groups,with entirely different responses.
The only simple issue-question si>how do we get those names,to re-appear as we had them listed.Now #2 part is,the names are all missing,BUT the numbers remain.We can click on the numbers and see the contact names we entered.But those names are supposed to be there alongside the numbers.I have worked at this information-issue for many days,trying to make it simpple enough,for people to understand what the issue is.
I also imported,all my email addresses,over to windows Live,and many efforts,to retrun them,has failed entirely.They all were frozen,by Windows Live,that little glitch,realy angered me.So I closed the W/L ,forever.Then when we tried to,do the W/L scan,it was refused as well.So answer me this”why have the W/L program at all???.We did severial weeks,asking for resolves,to absolutely no resolve.It may as usual,just be the faults directly,with Microsoft dealings!.Just another reason,for us to dump all Microsoft garbage,and go 100% Mack,we are working on that,issue as of this exact date.
So what my full intent is,I worked the issue out,and found how to have the names show,as listed along beside,the numbers.When I open the google email and,click on my contacts,it opens and the names,are right where they belong.
But neither google,nor Microsoft,could answer to the issue,after stacks of messages,and 1st grader responses.Then the wores experience,was having dozens,of those group message responses,so far from the subject matter,it was mind boggling,to say the least.It never surpisese me,how people read anything,verses how far they have missed,the subject matter,and the entire meanings,of the issue !!!?.When people read,aren,t they,supposed to have a little,concept of the content???.
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