Import Outlook Contacts into Gmail WITH Street Addresses

After running into this issue one to many times lately, I finally found a fast solution. Problem: Outlook users who want to export their address books (contacts) and import them into Gmail can get almost everything imported except street addresses. It’s maddening. Madness be gone, the solution is now just a few steps away.

Exporting your contacts from Outlook:

1. Open Outlook (note this is NOT Outlook Express)
2. Click File –> Import/Export
3. Click Export to a file
4. Click Next
5. Click Comma Separated Values (Windows) option
6. Click Next
7. Click Contacts from the list of your Outlook items on the next screen
8. Click Next
9. Click Browser and choose My Documents or the Desktop as the destination for your file
10. Type a name for the file (why not Contacts for Gmail)
11. Click OK
12. Click Next
13. Click Finish

Importing your Outlook contacts into Gmail

1. Log into your Gmail account
2. At the top right of the screen near the sign out option, click Older version (see image above)
3. Click Contacts on the left of the screen
4. Click Import
5. Click Browse
6. Find and click the file you exported from Outlook
7. Click Open
8. Click Import Contacts

After the import finishes, remember to click back to the Newer Version of Gmail in the upper right of the screen.

Gmail should now have all your contacts from Outlook complete with street addresses. Come on Google, fix the import function on the newer version of Gmail!