outlook and gmail have separate address books. they don’t sync, which means that if you change your contacts in one or the other, then you have an address book that remains unchanged. here’s how to keep your address books in sync with free, open source software.
It’s really easy to export and import your contacts, either from gmail to outlook or vice versa. The problem is that it’s a one-time thing. If you make a change to your outlook contacts, if your friend changes his email address or phone number, or adds or deletes a contact, then you need to change it in his gmail. and if you make changes in gmail, they won’t be reflected in outlook.
related: how to import and export contacts between outlook and gmail
Do you see the problem? However, it is not one without a solution, with contact sync mod, you can keep your outlook and gmail contacts under control. if you make a change to one, you can use the contact sync mod to update the other, quickly, conveniently, and almost effortlessly.
did we mention it’s open source?
go contact sync mod doesn’t try anything fun. it’s open source, so it’s free to use and there are no toolbars or spyware to ruin the experience.
Before you can install go contact sync mod, you need to download and install microsoft .net framework 3.5. then you can install contact sync mode and start keeping your gmail and outlook contacts in perfect harmony.
When you open the contact sync mod for the first time, you’ll need to enter your google account username and password before you can sync anything.
Remember, if you have two-factor authentication enabled on your gmail account, you’ll need to use an app-specific password.
some of you probably have two or more google accounts. if you want to sync them with contact sync mod, create profiles. in the sync options, you need to click on the drop down menu “sync profile” and then “add new profile”.
this will open the configuration manager. the options here are very simple. If you have already entered your login information, click “add” to create a new profile using that username and password combination. the “edit” button simply allows you to change the name of your profile.
Looking at the sync options, you can select which outlook contacts to sync (if you have more than one outlook email account and address book), choose whether to sync deleted contacts, and whether the program alerts you when deleted contacts are deleted. delete. contacts from your destination address book.
note, in addition to contacts, you can also sync your notes and appointments.
If you have selected “quick removal”, you will be asked how you want to proceed. For example, in this screenshot, a contact was previously deleted from Outlook. go contact sync mod asks us if we want to keep the google contact or delete it too.
Below the sync options are some important settings. Although these options have check boxes next to each one, you can only choose one.
By default, the program will ask you if you want to merge any duplicate contacts, or you can decide whether Outlook or Google wins the merge operation. finally, you can select the way the synchronizations are done, either from outlook to google or from google to outlook.
Automation settings allow you to choose whether the program runs at startup and automatically syncs. If you choose the automatic synchronization option, the synchronization interval can be configured. is set to sync every two hours by default.
If you select “report synchronization result in system tray”, a pop-up report will appear from the contact sync mode system tray icon.
You may have also noticed the sync and log details. with this, if there are any errors reported, you can see what they are and make the necessary corrections.
finally, right-click the system tray icon to run a manual sync, show, hide or exit the program.
As you can see, using the go contact sync mode is much easier than the manual import/export method we described above.
Unfortunately, it only works with gmail, so if you use another email service or app, then the manual method might be your only recourse. That being said, the contact sync mode will save gmail users a lot of time and effort when it comes to maintaining and syncing contacts between it and outlook.
go to contact sync mode
microsoft.net framework 3.5