Gmail contacts offline

catch22

How can I send my Gmail contact list to my dongle, please?

Life_On_Mars

"How do I export contacts?
You can quickly export your Gmail Contacts list into a CSV file. Here's how:

1. Log in to your Gmail account.
2. Click 'Contacts' along the left side of any Gmail page.
3. Click 'Export' in the upper-right corner of your Contacts list.
4. Select the format in which you'd like to export your contacts' information.
* Gmail CSV (for import into another Gmail account): formats your contacts' information so you can easily import it into another Gmail account.
o This option encodes your CSV file in Unicode/UTF-8.
* Outlook CSV (for import into Outlook clients, including Outlook Express): formats your contacts' information so you can easily import it into various versions of Microsoft Outlook.
o This option encodes your CSV file based on your language preferences, since Outlook doesn't accept Unicode files. When you import your contacts into Outlook, some entries may become garbled if they contain characters that aren't part of your language's character set.
5. Click 'Export Contacts.'
6. 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 Gmail CSV to fit your needs."
https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=24911&hl=en

catch22

Thanks but I had already tried that. For some reason it uses excel as the default which is not what I want. I would just like a nice plain list.

charlieheard

catch22 wrote:

Thanks but I had already tried that. For some reason it uses excel as the default which is not what I want. I would just like a nice plain list.

CSV is a list, just with a bit added so that you can identify text vs numbers vs other datatypes. You can open CSV files in notepad without any problems.

M$ Excel just assumes that you would want to modify what is essentially spreadsheet data in a spreadsheet package :rolleyes: