A long requested feature of many Gmail users has been finally added to the popular webmail service. Gmail users can now merge duplicate contacts automatically, something that was not possible before. The only option of dealing with duplicate contacts before the recent changes was to manually merge selected contacts in the Gmail contact list. That might have worked for accounts with a few dozen contacts but someone with thousands of contacts might have given up on the tasks as it was to time consuming.
The new additions to Gmail change that. Gmaul users who want to automatically merge duplicate contacts in the webmail service can do so now by following these steps:
- Logging into their Gmail account
- Clicking on the Contact link in the left sidebar after the Gmail login
- This opens the Contact menu on the website
- A click on the Find duplicates button under the got duplicate contacts heading will initiate the process.
- Gmail will display a list of contacts with duplicate contact information.
All of the contacts are selected by default. It is possible to expand any contact to take a look at the different contact profiles that are supposedly of the same contact. It is possible to uncheck contacts if that is necessary.
A click on the merge button will merge the contact information and remove the selected duplicate contacts from the list of contacts in Gmail.
This process can be very handy for users with lots of contacts and users who sync Gmail contacts with other contacts databases regularly. (via Gmail Blog)
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Thats all well and good, IF you want to merge contacts. My problem is when I upload a VCF file to gmail for contacts, it combines things I do not want combined, and I have not found a way to stop it. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Dave