Bella Blackwell | September 24th, 2018 | Email Migration, General
Microsoft Outlook is a desktop-based email application which is widely used among people personally and in corporate world. On the other hand Gmail is a web-based email application which can be accessed anywhere including your phone. People who use Outlook regularly, it is important for them to backup their contacts in other email application. This is where we bring in Gmail. The user can export Outlook contacts to Gmail in order to maintain backup. In this article we will understand how to copy contacts from Microsoft Outlook to Gmail without any hassle.
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The main reason to transfer Outlook contacts to Gmail is that the latter is a web based email application which can be easily accessible from anywhere but you should have a working internet connection. Let’s move forward to various techniques to import Outlook PST contacts to Gmail.
The manual technique is a two way procedure to transfer Outlook contacts to Gmail. One is through export followed by another import procedure.
Method: Export PST contact to CSV file format
This manual method to Export Outlook Contacts to Gmail aims at moving PST to CSV file format. The steps are:
Method: Import CSV to Gmail
In order to import PST to Gmail contact, the resultant CSV file has to be imported from the above steps. Further importing CSV to Gmail file steps are:
An alternate method to import Outlook contacts to Gmail is through automated tool i.e. Outlook PST to VCF Converter. The features of this tool includes that it converts PST file that includes emails, contacts, calendars and task notes. This utility also supports conversion of PST to MSG, PST EML, PST to PDF, etc. It gives support to corrupted and password protected file. It previews Outlook containing mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, notes and journals. There is no file size limitation on size of PST files. It converts both ANSI and UNICODE files.
1. Install and Launch the software on the local machine.
2. After that, click on the Add File button to add PST file in Outlook.
3. The software display all data items stored in PST file. Go to Contacts tab from left panel and click Export.
4. Here, you need to choose vCard radio button.
5. Click on the Browse button to choose the desired destination location to store output.
6. Click on the Export button and start the conversion.
As the process completed successfully, click on the OK button. Then, you can go to the destination location and click on the individual contacts to open it.
These days users in order to backup their data import PST contacts to Gmail. It is a good thing as Gmail is a reliable source of web-based email application. There are two methods to export Outlook contacts to Gmail discussed in this article one is manual and other one is with the help of tool. It is up to the user to decide which tool to go for.