Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Thing 3 -- Extra! 5 step Process: Add Contacts from G-Spreadsheet


Ok...this is one of the fun wonders of all things Cloud / Internet. Today I wanted to add all my cohort-mates to my gmail contacts via the spreadsheet shared by our facilitators, however, I had no editing rights to the document. So...

My first thought:  

Save a copy of the spreadsheet so I can copy / paste emails. 

But this isn't really what I want to do. I want to upload all the info from the spreadsheet to my gmail contacts (first name, last name & email). I don't want to have to toggle btwn screens laboriously copy / pasting.

My second thought: 

There MUST be a way to auto-upload this. It IS a Google spreadsheet, I AM using Google Drive and I DO want them in my Gmail contacts. Surely the mighty google can connect all those dots for me. 

Third thought: 

Google: 'add contacts to gmail from google docs spreadsheet' :)  

Thought 3.5:  Top return looks good-- click on that...

#4

huh?? That's not English! 

Final Thought: 

Who needs English? This guy made a screencast that I can easily follow regardless of the fact that I do not recognize his spoken language.  And what does that say about communicating with kids? (ELL, or otherwise), and the true power of tech tools?

Voila! :) 

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