Organizing your Gmail contacts into groups can save you time when you’re writing messages to multiple people at once. For example, if you create a “Family” group, instead of addressing an email to your mom, dad, sister and brother, you can just start typing “Family” and Gmail will complete the rest. Today we’re making two improvements to contact groups which should make them easier to create and control.
First, let’s say you have a list of coworkers you think you’ll want to contact again in the future. Now, you can paste that list into the Add to group menu when viewing your “Coworkers” group to populate or extend it.
Second, we’ve added the ability to specify which one of your contact’s email addresses you want to use in a given group. So, for example, you can now use your friend’s personal address in your “Poker Buddies” group and that same friend’s work address in your “Coworkers” group.
Other Improvements to the Contacts Manager
New Contacts interface – This update brings many of the improvements seen in consumer Gmail, including the following additions for Enterprise:
– Add new contact information that will default to “Work” instead of “Home” field types.
– View domain directory contact details interwoven inline with any contact details you’ve added yourself.
– Add contacts from the domain directory to your “My Contacts” list in a single click.
– Manage groups more easily by quickly adding email addresses to groups, and picking from a contact’s multiple email addresses to use on a group-by-group basis.
– Revert changes to your Contacts for up to 30 days in case you need to restore deleted or merged contacts, or undo an import.
