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How to Transfer Contacts between Google accounts

An introspective mammoth task of importing or exporting information from one account to another has been disentangled by google reducing the procedure to bare few steps. Well, anyone may need to share data, like Contacts or Contact Groups, with another Google account.

Suppose, the user needs to share some important info in his account with his client or colleague, he may have to use import and export options. In case he wants to transfer his contacts from one acccount to another (Suppose, personal account to professional account), he is suppossed to execute few simple steps. These steps are mentioned below.

Steps to Export

Step 1

Sign in your Google account

Step 2

Click on Gmail option situated at the top of the left sidebar of the screen. Three options will open up, tap on Contacts option and a new window bar open up.

Step 3

Further, click on More option situated on the left sidebar and then select Export from the list opened up.

Step 4

A window pops up asking you to pick the contacts you want to export. Choose the contacts you want to export. You may select a single contact group to all the contacts in your google account. Wisely select it from drop down list and also select the export format type. (Select Google CSV format, which is ideal if the plan is to later import your contacts to another Google account, Outlook CSV format if you want to import contacts to Outlook, Yahoo or Hotmail, and vCard format if you want to import contacts to Apple Address Book.)

Step 5

Tap on export and select the saving address for your file. Sign out of your account.

Steps to Import

Step 1

Sign in your another Google account

Step 2

Press on Contacts option in Gmail menu and tap or more as already done above.

Step 3

Click on Import option on that left sidebar.

Step 4
A small window pops up asking you to Choose File, and then navigate to the folder where you saved your .csv file.

Step 5

Tap on Import option. When import gets completed, a contact named “Imported [date]” is created.

You are done with shifting your contacts from one account to another.

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