I’ve had an email account for quite some time now…since 1994 or so if I remember correctly. I’ve always like organizing my contact list by last name. It’s just easier to find people. Well, GMail auto-inserts contacts for you. They like to list by first name. For the past three and a half years I’ve been manually editing every contact to be Last_Name, First_Name.
Any time I’ve ever tried to add email addresses by selecting them from my contacts list it’s never worked. It always tells me the addresses are invalid. This has been very frustrating. I’ve even contacted the Google people about it and have gotten nowhere. Tonight it finally dawned on me why. Most email clients let you separate names by comma or semi-colon. I prefer the semi-colon. Well GMail prefers the comma. All of the aliases in my contacts list have commas in them which is why is gets all confused when trying to import contacts.
So now I have to decide if it’d really be worth to go through 300+ names and change them to the way Google wants.
That’s the only negative thing i have to say about gmail. So many of the people on my contact list I will never e-mail again, but they’re on my list.
Is there an export tool?
Pull them all out to a Excel sheet, automate the edit, then put them back in?
Or…just edit each address the next time you need to e-mail the person.