Fantastic, its shared/updated around my devices with ease ... love it.
Saved myself a copy in .csv just in case I (or Google!) stupidly do a 'delete all' (messy .csv ... more later)
BUT
On my pc I use WLM 11 for sending/receiving all emails for POP3, Gmail and Outlook and my WLM Contacts list is ... yep, my WLM Contacts, not the nice tidy version that I have now established for my Gmail account!
Question 1. How can I safely import a Gmail Contact listing to WLM to replace the current listing? And what should I do to ensure that I have a fall-back position.
I did consider using Gmail on my pc to handle my other accounts but its handling of POP3 is functionally poor ... like 'do not delete = delete' ... this is under investigation now by Google. Also using WLM I can drag emails in any account into my WLM Storage Folders which enables me to easily store e.g. Gmails, locally on my pc. I can copy all emails and store on an external drive. I guess that all this is well known.
Question 2. What is the best way to save a legible copy of Google .csv in Excel?
My Google .csv is a download mess. It places all information in Column 1 and it has numerous Headers. Saving a 'read easy' copy in Excel seems to involve a lot of changes/deletions. I have read a lot about saving a Gmail Contact list in Excel but it seems that unless the list is 'simple' (eg name/email address/maybe street address) then the likely result is still messy ... that's my experience at least. Even in an unmodified form I would not be game to import it to a Gmail account to create Gmail Contacts ... has anyone tried?
Any guidance gratefully accepted
