Personal contacts – Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook User Manual
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Personal Contacts
Personal contact
data in your old
profile
Imports
to
Outlook
Available
in
Outlook
Syncs with
Apps
Personal contacts
(under Contacts)
Includes all fields (File As, images,
notes, etc.).
Personal contacts
(not under Contacts)
Contacts must reside under
Outlook’s Contacts folder, or in a
subfolder or Contacts, in order to
sync.
Multiple contact
folders
Contacts folders from Outlook
don’t sync to Google Apps.
Instead, all contacts appear in
Google Apps under My Contacts.
But you can reorganize them
using Google groups.
Personal distribution
lists
Your mailing lists from Outlook
don’t sync to Google Apps. But
you can still email a list from
Gmail by creating a Google group.
Rich formatting in
notes
Rich formatting remains in
Outlook only if you don’t update
contacts from Google Apps.
Notes larger than
16KB
Larger notes are truncated in
Google Apps but the full note
remains in Outlook.
Follow-up flags,
dates, and reminders
Flags aren’t available in Google
contacts.
Category definitions
Categories aren’t available in
Google contacts.
Category
assignments
Unsupported in Outlook
Contacts (with Google Apps
Sync)
Sharing a contact folder
Folder permissions aren’t available in Outlook for sharing
folders.
Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook
®
, Version 3.0 or higher
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