7 Google Contacts Tips Every User Should Know!

Google Contacts may seem simple and straightforward. But do you know these 7 tips and tricks? In this video, Scott Friesen shows you how to customize Google Contacts and get the most out of this app. From enhancing your labels to merging contacts together, you'll be a Google Contacts master in no time!

00:00 Using Contact Labels and Groups
01:44 Make Labels Stand Out with Emojis
03:23 Sharing Google Contacts with Others
04:21 Custom Column Display
05:49 Adding Profile Pictures
7:20 Merge Duplicate Contacts
9:31 Shortcut Keys to Access Contacts Fast

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Scott Friesen is a productivity specialist and founder of Simpletivity training and consulting. He is also a prolific public speaker, workshop leader, and time management coach.

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[annecrosbygaudetmusic]

Love the emoji tip! Going to do that now!

[jennybracelin]

Very helpful, thank you. I was looking for ONE place to store customer information and with your tips, GC is perfect.

[furqantafseer]

Very useful tips there. I knew three of them, rest were really awesome and new to me.

[econsultingparis]

Thanks a lot!!! I love the picture tip !

[patrickkapuyatshiuma]

Owesome video! I like the trick to add a contact picture through a link! Thanks!!

[blomshell]

Great video, thanks. I really like the emoji tip. For those not familiar, you can get to the emoji menu on a PC by clicking Windows key + period key. I am struggling to find my contacts that don't have any labels though. Does anyone know how to do this?

[argenisaguilar]

Great information...thank you very much...

[barbarabacker-gray]

Hi there. Great video. Question: how do I get that screen? I only got there once by accident when I was clicking around a lot and then only for frequent contacts.

[danbails]

Hey Scott, nice video but I have a question that wasnt covered. What if I have a contact entry that is for multiple people or in my case it is a husband and wife in a Home Owners Association and they each have their own email entered in one contact. When they are in a group that I want to email I want both of their emails to be used when I enter their group lable in the "to" field. Is that possible?

[gilles]

Good morning. Great tutorial ... thank you. I have a tricky question for you about picture QUALITY of our contacts. Sometimes the picture looks great and sometimes it is very blury (big pixels). Do you know how to make sure to have good quality picture in our Contact application ? Thanks by advance. Gilles

[palladiumone]

@Simpletivity Hey thanks for this great video! Question: When you change the order of your contact headers will the data export in that order?

[SarahCredo-ub]

Do you have a video on how to sync labels between gmail and contacts?

[MaryC.]

Thank you for the great video. I have contacts with old email addresses which appear when I prepare an email to them. How do I remove those old email addresses without deleting old emails where they were used.

[markwalter]

what did you press to bring up the emoji menu? @2:42min

[tbarron]

In tip #2, how do you bring up the emoji menu when editing the name of the label?

[kimberlynovak]

Scott, love your stuff!! Not sure if adding pic to contacts from social media works on mac? Did not have option to add file name. Did I miss something?

[agoogleuser]

How to get that clicky animation effect?, It just looks so please let me know..
Thank you

[Belowtheradar]

I created a label, division 1 basketball coaches. I have 300 coaches contacts names saved and under each of those coaches contacts I have three assistant coaches names and emails but when I sent out an email to that label only the head coach receives the email and not their assistant coaches. so how can I make sure that everyone under that one contact name will receive the email.

[Shamshir_Shaikh]

I am trying to sort contacts only which starts with +61 but I am getting all other country numbers as well even if 61 is in between, can you suggest ?

[CreativeBlue]

Had no idea you could bring an Emoji into a Label in such as easy way. Many good tips here, including Copy image address of a contact from Social Media. Question: is there any way to Add/See the Contact NOTES in the Contact List Overview by Columns. Haven't found a way to do this except by saving in a Excel csv file.