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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

Google

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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