Gents, not to sound too terribly dense about the situation but it seems that Google, in its never ending quest to share information, has a rather large appetite for contacts. Rather, the making of them it seems.
Now first up, let me say I am not much of an email user. Truth told I kind of dislike it. What I dislike the most is the complexity of many of the functions. At times, Gmail has decided on its own to send certain emails to certain folders or groups whether I asked it to or not. The complexity issue goes with a lot of email clients. I know, I know. It should be old hat for anyone in the computer age but I'm hanged if I can make smooth use of any email client.
One issue is extra contacts I don't want. When we made the family switch to smart phones(oxymoron I am convinced) from dumb phones, the only really practical way was to use a SIM card and insert it into each phone and copy from phone to SIM. The new phones use micro SIM and saving to each SIM would have been a pain and the clerk would have had to scan each SIM in a machine and copy it to the new micro SIMs and keep it all straight. I made the frightful decision to insert my SIM into each phone and copy the contacts. When I inserted it into my new mobile it of course synced it to Gmail straight away and now I have a load of contact I don't need.
Also, Google seemingly takes a few things upon its own 'authority' to do and has more than once changed the way my contacts appear. I was raised to give lists of proper names a certain parlance; Last name first/comma/first name/comma/middle initial. This works quite well for me since I am used to looking for last names in a list.
No matter how many times I select 'display last name first' or however it is actually labeled, Contacts seems to do as they ruddy well please. So is there decently easy way(something that won't take a full day of typing) to give them the display characteristics I mentioned? And other than simply deleting the 'foreign' contacts, is there an easy way to save them to a file or message I can send to each of the other devises we own? Some are my daughter's and some are my wife's. I also like to keep multiple numbers or emails under one contact title and editing and saving those changes seems tedious at times. Any pointers there as to how to speed it up? Thank you for any help.
Now first up, let me say I am not much of an email user. Truth told I kind of dislike it. What I dislike the most is the complexity of many of the functions. At times, Gmail has decided on its own to send certain emails to certain folders or groups whether I asked it to or not. The complexity issue goes with a lot of email clients. I know, I know. It should be old hat for anyone in the computer age but I'm hanged if I can make smooth use of any email client.
One issue is extra contacts I don't want. When we made the family switch to smart phones(oxymoron I am convinced) from dumb phones, the only really practical way was to use a SIM card and insert it into each phone and copy from phone to SIM. The new phones use micro SIM and saving to each SIM would have been a pain and the clerk would have had to scan each SIM in a machine and copy it to the new micro SIMs and keep it all straight. I made the frightful decision to insert my SIM into each phone and copy the contacts. When I inserted it into my new mobile it of course synced it to Gmail straight away and now I have a load of contact I don't need.
Also, Google seemingly takes a few things upon its own 'authority' to do and has more than once changed the way my contacts appear. I was raised to give lists of proper names a certain parlance; Last name first/comma/first name/comma/middle initial. This works quite well for me since I am used to looking for last names in a list.
No matter how many times I select 'display last name first' or however it is actually labeled, Contacts seems to do as they ruddy well please. So is there decently easy way(something that won't take a full day of typing) to give them the display characteristics I mentioned? And other than simply deleting the 'foreign' contacts, is there an easy way to save them to a file or message I can send to each of the other devises we own? Some are my daughter's and some are my wife's. I also like to keep multiple numbers or emails under one contact title and editing and saving those changes seems tedious at times. Any pointers there as to how to speed it up? Thank you for any help.
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