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Exporting Gmail contacts

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You can quickly export your Gmail Contacts list into a CSV file. Here's how:

  1. Sign in to Gmail.
  2. Click Contacts along the side of any Gmail page.
  3. Click Export at the top of your Contacts list.
  4. Choose whether to export all contacts or only one group.
  5. Select the format in which you'd like to export your contacts' information.
  6. Click Export.
  7. Choose Save to Disk then click OK.
  8. Select a location to save your file, and click 'OK.'

Depending on the requirements of the program to which you're importing your contacts, you can easily edit the this CSV to fit your needs.

updated 8/10/2009

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