Moving Contact from Gmail: Issue

[tfracs33]

Hello,

I am trying to move all my contacts from Gmail to Outlook. I previously had it synched to my Gmail account, but realized that you can't transfer those contacts to Outlook, they are just linked.

I exported my Gmail contacts as an Outlook CSV file and every time I try to upload it to Outlook.com I get an error message stating: "There was a problem uploading your file"

I went in and looked at the info, changed the phone numbers to be just numbers....but can't find why it won't import.

Do I need to format the header text in a different way than was exported by Gmail?

Any suggestions? I am trying to move both my calendar and contacts away from Gmail.

Thank you in advance.

 

[gapost]

Why not just link Google to Outlook.com? That is an option in Outlook

 

[tfracs33]

I had it linked, but it doesn't save contacts to outlook-- just pulls from google.

I want to stop using my Gmail calendar and contacts completely and use outlook as my main source of organization

 

[gapost]

Oh ok. It's interesting that on the import, in step 2, it only lets you select a service: Microsoft Outlook (csv) or Outlook. I wonder if it won't let you import a .csv file from Google.

 

[tfracs33]

Maybe I will try to save it from Excel and see what happens. A bit frustrating and I was surprised that linking to google wouldn't have ab option to save the contacts to outlook

 

[CB_Demented]

I don't know if you solved this, but I thought I'd throw this in in case someone else is looking for a solution.

The easiest way to move contacts from Gmail to Hotmail/live/outlook is to use the Outlook client in Office. Connect both accounts and then you can just copy all contacts from one account to the other through People.