There are tricks that can be used to isolate these in Outlook, but that's never been discussed here, yet. In my business Gmail account I have 718 contacts (which need cleaning out, I might add, a lot are not 'current') I've created and 924 'Other Contacts.' Were these two to be merged in an e-mail client like Outlook I would have more 'junk' contacts than real ones. But make sure he is very clearly making an informed decision.Īlso, to give you two examples as far as scale, in my personal Gmail account I have 244 contacts I have actually created, and that's over a period of about 20 years, but in my Other Contacts there are 233 more in addition, it's almost a one-to-one count and I can assure you most of those Other Contacts are people or companies that have emailed me once at some point in the past and that I'll never wish to contact again. If you show him what's actually in Other Contacts, and he's entirely clear that each and every one of these will be interspersed among his 'real' contacts in Outlook and he still wants it, then go for it. And then you're stuck trying to clean up both the contacts and the relationship. This is important because doing what is being proposed could make the client quite unhappy, and not because you're not doing as he asked, but because he has no idea what the impact is on ease of use of Contacts from having done so. If you showed this client exactly what is in 'Other Contacts' in Gmail web Contacts he may very well be shocked at what he actually sees. This is not a decision (importing all 'Other Contacts') that should be undertaken without really heavy duty consideration. Outlook ends up creating what is essentially 'Other contacts' on its own, too. Google keeps 'Other Contacts' isolated from user created contacts for a very, very good reason. That's the problem, people ask for all sorts of things that they have no idea about what the actual functional ramifications are. He won't care until he has hundreds, possibly thousands, of 'Contacts' in his address book that he neither recognizes nor will ever use.

Gsyncit