How to Add Contacts to Gmail

Let me show you all the important stuff you need to know when working with contacts, like adding and editing them in your Gmail account.

Go to your Gmail account. In your Inbox or any other email folder for that matter, click the person you want to add to your contacts ...

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... and choose Add to Contacts.

If the name of that person is not already present, than simply enter it.

You can also Add a picture representing that person if the image is not already present.

You can add that persons phone number, home address, even their work address ...

... Birthday date ...

... and many more additional things. Click the Add button bellow to see what else is at your disposal.

Now go back to Contacts.

Click Contacts and choose Contacts (see picture).

There are also other ways to create a new Google contact. You can either click the New Contact button on the left ...

... or click the Add contact button above, and search for the people you already exchanged emails with (see picture). 

Simply start typing their name and when you find it, simply click to add it to your Google contacts (see picture).

To delete a contact or more contacts for that matter, again go to your contacts, select the contacts you want to remove ...

... and choose Delete contact.