- Your Gmail contacts – hidden in plain sight
- Open and Access Gmail Contacts
- Working with Gmail contacts
- Gmail Contacts Features
Your Gmail contacts – hidden in plain sight
Managing contacts in Gmail is very easy. From adding and editing people to the list to syncing your Gmail contacts with your Google+ account, there are some great features available if you know where to click.
Open and Access Gmail Contacts
To open your Gmail address book in a desktop browser:
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Open Gmail in any browser.
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Press app icon in the upper right corner.
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Click Contacts to open a new window with all your contacts.
Older versions of Gmail used a different way to access contacts. If you haven’t switched to the new Gmail experience yet, try the following.
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Open your Gmail account screen.
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Click on a word gmail at the top of the left pane on the right under the Google name.
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Select Contacts in the drop-down menu to open the screen Google Contacts and open the “Contacts” folders in the left pane of the Gmail screen.
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In addition, you can also access contacts by:
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Use keyboard shortcuts. Press key G and then the key C in Gmail to display contact folders in the left pane (instead of mail folders).
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Enter https://contacts.google.com/ directly into the URL field to open the Gmail screen with the contact folders on the left panel.
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There you should find all the contacts you have saved in Google.
Working with Gmail contacts
By choosing Contacts at the top of Gmail’s left pane, you can:
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Open all your contacts or only starred contacts.
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View your most contacts.
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Form new contact groups.
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Import contacts from other providers.
Gmail Contacts Features
What users love most about Gmail is that it’s easy to use with other aspects of your Google account, from Google+ and YouTube to Google Photos.
As for contacts in particular, you can easily add the people you interact with on Google+ and YouTube. There are also many useful features that you should be aware of when it comes to managing contacts in Gmail:
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Gmail keeps track of the people you communicate with often and adds them to your frequently used contacts list. You can then add these people to your main contact list.
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Gmail Contacts automatically collects the information and details your contacts want to share.
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Your contacts are integrated with Google+, so you can easily add people from your circles to your contact list. Some people don’t want to share their email address on Google+, but you can use Contacts to access your profile pages.
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You don’t have to worry about duplicate contacts – they will be deleted automatically. To check for duplicates, click duplicates on the left side of the screen Google Contacts .
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You can group contacts. For example, you can separate your business contacts from your personal contacts, or create a group for a specific project you are working on so that you can easily email them all at once.
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Gmail gives you the ability to quickly import, export, or print your entire contact list.