Email platforms have changed a lot since their beginnings. Programmers constantly update the platforms in order to provide their users the best experience.
Outlook is one of the most used email platforms around the world, just like Gmail is. Perhaps, its main competition currently.
Many of us choose to use one platform for work contacts and another for our personal contacts. In turn, many have chosen to use only one of them instead of both. And how can you export those contacts? We’ll tell you all the steps below.
How to export your Outlook contacts to Gmail?
If you’re still looking for your contacts in your inbox so you can get an email address or having them listed in paper doesn’t work for you anymore.
Whatever the reason why you want to transfer all your contacts from Outlook to Gmail, here we will tell you how you can do it in a few steps.
- Log in in Outlook, then go to ”Contacts”. Select ”All contacts”.
- Click on ”Manage” and then ”Export Contacts”.
- In the pop up window, click on ”Export”.
- Download the file ”Contacts.csv”
Steps for importing contacts to Gmail
So far we have told you how you can export you Outlook contacts. Now, we’ll tell you how to import those contacts. Go to your Gmail account and follow the next steps:
- Click on ”Contacts”.
- Select ”Import Contacts”.
- Choose ”Select file” to upload the previously exported file and finally click on ”Import”.
And that’s it, now you can use your Outlook contacts in Gmail without problems.
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