View a quick We've made it easy for you to import your Hotmail contacts into Gmail, so you'll always have up-to-date contact information for all of your friends. First, you'll need to format your contacts' information in a .CSV file.
Save your Hotmail contacts' information as a .CSV file so you can quickly import it into Gmail.
- Sign in to your Hotmail account.
- Open the 'Contacts' tab, and click 'Print View.'
- Align your cursor with the first letter of the 'Name' column.
- Highlight all of your contacts by holding down the cursor and dragging it down the list.
- Press the 'Control' and 'c' keys on your keyboard, while the list is highlighted, to copy all of your contacts.
- Open Microsoft Excel (or a similar spreadsheet program that supports comma separated values).
- Select cell 'A1' in Excel (the top square on the far left side).
- Right-click in cell A1 and select 'Paste Special.'
- Select 'Text,' and click 'OK.'
- Choose 'Save As...' from the 'File' menu, and select 'CSV (Comma delimited)' from the 'Files of type:' drop-down menu. Make a note of where you saved the file, and the name you assigned.
Once you have your contacts' information properly formatted in a .CSV file, import it into Gmail.
- Sign in to your Gmail account at mail.google.com
- Click 'Contacts' along the left side of any Gmail page.
- Click 'Import.'
- Select the .CSV file you'd like to import by clicking 'Browse...'
- Once you've located your file, click 'Import Contacts.'