How do I Merge Contact lists (Phone contacts list with my Outlook email contacts)?

I like a lot of people just recently purchased a Motorola Droid X and now get Email on my phone, but all my email contacts are in my computer running in Outlook 2007. Here's my issue. I already imported all my contacts from my old phone into my new Driod X via Verizon Back Up Assistant. So, I have all my phone #'s and contacts without any email addresses. But, I have all those same contacts Email addresses in my computer in Outlook 2007. How do I merge the two contact lists without creating a disaster? I'm sure all the names aren't exactly the same and I would have duplicates and other problems. I was thinking I might have to just hand enter everything into Outlook 2007, delete my contacts from my phone and import everything from Outlook.

Can anyone advise me with this?

Thanks!

Karl

Accepted answers

lewwill

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/transfer-contacts-between-outlook-and-google-gmail-HA010222048.aspx I did it by exporting my Outlook Contacts to my computer desktop as a .csv file and then importing them to my Gmail account. That synced the files to my Droid X. I got all my contacts on the Droid. Might have a little cleanup to do but worked great.

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lewwill

karlmisc

Thanks for the advice! I haven't tried it yet, but I did follow the link you gave me and it looks promising. I knew there wasn't a perfect way to do this but I think your solution is as good as it gets. Thanks again for your help!!

mattlar

I am doing the same thing except I linked my Droid X up to my Verizon Backup, Gmail, AOL, and Outlook accounts ... PLUS, the majority of my contacts are on an old Palm. So I am bringing all of my Palm contacts into Outlook (similar operation as the link already posted to your solutions.) Then my phone will automatically use them because I am already linked.

Now, like you, I had 3 or 4 occurances of the same contact. But if you tap the contact name on your phone, you get a button to link it to another contact. So this way, I do not have to delete the contacts in the other locations. Using the link feature just lumps them all into one contact on the phone. It works great.

karlmisc

Thanks! That's another good idea. I'll have to play around and see what way will work best for me.