Salsa Migration - Exporting Contacts from Gmail
If some or all the contact data you intend to import into
Salsa are in a Gmail contact list, you will need to export
that information into a format that Excel can read. Here are Google's
instructions for how to export contacts from Gmail:
Note: This export process will create a "CSV" file. (CSV stands for
"Comma-Separated-Values.") Excel knows how to open CSV files, so once
your data are in this form, you'll be able to work with them in Excel.
- Sign in to Gmail.
- Click Contacts
along the side of any Gmail page.
- From the More
actions drop-down menu, select Export....
- Choose whether to export all contacts or only one group.
- Select the format in which you'd like to export your
contacts' information. Please note, some of these formats can lose some
contact information.
- To transfer contacts between Google accounts, use the
Google CSV format. This is the recommended way to back up your Google
Contacts.
- To transfer contacts to Outlook, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, or
various other apps, use the Outlook CSV format.
- To transfer contacts to Apple Address Book, use the vCard
format.
- Click Export.
- Choose Save
to Disk then click OK.
- Select a location to save your file, and click OK.
This file last updated: 20-Apr-2011