Microsoft Outlook Web App - Exporting Contacts to a Gmail Account

Summary

This process is only for copying your personal files and information from your KU account to your personal account. A copy of KU documents should only be made in cases where you are building a portfolio. Please seek the guidance and direction of your supervisor and the technical support team for your department.

Exporting Contacts via Outlook Web App (OWA)

  1. Login to your KU email at outlook.office365.com.

  2. Click on the People icon located in the bottom left corner of the screen.
    Clicking on the People icon located in the bottom left corn of the screen of the Outlook web application.

  3. Select Your Contacts.
    Selecting Your Contacts from the dropdown menu.

  4. Click the check box next to the Your Contacts header. This will select all of your contacts in Outlook.Clicking the checkbox next to the Your Contacts header to select all of your contacts in Outlook.

    Viewing all of your contacts as selected with checkboxes checked.

  5. Click Manage in the upper right.
    Clicking Manage Contacts in the upper right corner, then clicking Export contacts from the dropdown menu.

  6. Select Export Contacts This will download a file called contacts.csv which is used in the next step to import contacts into your Google account. In the Export contacts screen, clicking Export to download a file called contacts.csv.

Import Contacts Into Gmail

  1. Go to https://contacts.google.com to view the contacts for your Google account. You will need to sign in to your personal Google account if you are not already signed in.

  2. Select the Import option from the sidebar.
    In your Google account, selecting the import option from the sidebar.

  3. Click Select file.
    In the Import Contacts window, selecting Select file button.

  4. Choose the contacts.csv file downloaded in the previous section.                 

  5. Select Open.
    Clicking open after selecting the contacts.csv file downloaded earlier.

  6. Once you see the alert All done, your contacts are uploaded to your Gmail account.                            Viewing an example of your uploaded contacts in your Gmail account.

 

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