The NEW Google Contacts
Time to setup your distribution lists and organize your NEW Google Contacts.
Created by Scott Aten, August 31, 2018
If you have converted your Gmail to the NEW look then you will have noticed that Contacts have changed as
well. I have put together a series of video to help you navigate your way through the NEW Google Contacts
as well as how to use them in Gmail. Many of you are probably putting together contacts of parents or setting
up department distribution lists so this should be valuable information to get you started this school year.
- Intro to Google Contacts - Shows you how to get to convert to the new look of Gmail, how to find Contacts, and how to make a single new contact.
- Import Multiple Contacts - Using an Excel template, this video shows how to import multiple contacts all at once into your Contacts and rename the Label that gets created when you import them. This is perfect to bring in all your parent contacts quickly and easily. You will want to download this TEMPLATE to use with the video. Open the template as a Google Sheet and then download it to use in Excel.
- Use Contact Labels to Send an Email - This is essentially the Google equivalent of using a distribution list.
- Share Contacts by Exporting Them - Do you need to give a colleague one of your groups of contacts? This video shows how to export the group. They will then go back to the "Import Multiple Contacts" video to see how to bring them into their Contacts.
- Make a Contact from an Email - Built into Gmail is the ability for you to make a contact from an email you have received.
- Make Distribution Lists (Labels) from Gmail or Contacts - This video demonstrates how to make distribution lists (in Google they are called Labels) both from Gmail and Contacts.
- Adding a Contact to an Existing Group (Label) - Did you forget to include an email address in your group or has new come into a situation that you want to include them in a group? This video shows how to add them to a contact to an group or label that you have already made.
For more helpful information and the archive of previous posts, look for items in the menu to the left.
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