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Old 18-10-2009, 21:04   #11
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What about diary events and contacts?
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Old 18-10-2009, 21:05   #12
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The iPhone will grab calendar and contacts from Gmail just fine.
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Old 18-10-2009, 21:06   #13
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I don't use gmail for calenars though or contacts.
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Old 18-10-2009, 21:07   #14
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Why not start doing so? It should be trivial to import your current contacts and stuff into Gmail.
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Old 18-10-2009, 21:11   #15
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Just checked and gmail can import calender and contacts from outlook.

Not sure if I can get it to remain synched with the calender though? Ideally I want to add something on my local machine and it's synched with gmail rather than logging directly into gmail
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Old 18-10-2009, 21:13   #16
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Never knew you could do it... I think I'd get confused with which was my "master" calendar if I did do that though. You must appreciate that I am a very basic user, and like having a "central" area where I keep everything.

I do understand that by using gmail it means I can synch to that and then outlook would also synch to it/from it, but I'm already starting to go cross eyed thinking about it.
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Old 18-10-2009, 21:16   #17
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Ooooh now this is spiffing

http://www.google.com/support/calend...y?answer=89955

2-way synching of your office calender meaning you can have one calender follow you around on whatever machine or device you use. Now that I *really* like
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Old 18-10-2009, 21:17   #18
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Calendar is easy: http://www.google.com/support/calend...n&answer=89955 contacts not so much, on the desktop at least. Though on the desktop, you can just use the web client anyway. I like Outlook in the corporate environment, but it doesnt give me anything special over GMail as an individual. And GMail has the added advantage of a consistent UI across platforms, though of course that's only advantage if you use something other than windows.
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Denied ..... using win xp 64 When windows 7 comes through I will switch over.
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Old 18-10-2009, 21:21   #20
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Never knew you could do it... I think I'd get confused with which was my "master" calendar if I did do that though. You must appreciate that I am a very basic user, and like having a "central" area where I keep everything.

I do understand that by using gmail it means I can synch to that and then outlook would also synch to it/from it, but I'm already starting to go cross eyed thinking about it.
The question was replacing Outlook though, not supplementing it, though you can do that too if you wanted. The big advantage of replacing Outlook with GMail being that your mail/calendar/contacts will follow you on your phone without effort or PC required.
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