Years ago I wrote the ultimate address book that has people and addresses as separate tables in a database where people can have more than one address.\u00a0 It worked well.\u00a0 Now I want to use something in the cloud, and can’t find anything that works as elegantly.\u00a0 To keep things simple I plan to use Google contacts.<\/p>\n
Easy.\u00a0 Export my contacts, patch them together in Excel and import them as a google CSV.<\/p>\n
Except that google exports in one format but is unable to import back again!?\u00a0 Very frustrating, and their help files are dreadful giving no help at all on field headings<\/a>.<\/p>\n At least they allow you to roll back your contacts, so my mistakes were able to be fixed.\u00a0 <\/p>\n Later:\u00a0 I eventually sorted it out, but it took a lot of pain to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Years ago I wrote the ultimate address book that has people and addresses as separate tables in a database where people can have more than one address.\u00a0 It worked well.\u00a0 Now I want to use something in the cloud, and can’t find anything that works as elegantly.\u00a0 To keep things simple I plan to use … Continue reading Google Contacts importing nightmares.<\/span>