Google Contacts can be accessed by going to the Google Workspace dashboard (waffle) in the upper right-hand corner of the Gmail interface and selecting “Contacts”. Within Contacts, you will see all of your contact lists (labels) that you have manually created, as well as some additional groups of contacts, such as “Directory” and “Emailed Contacts”.
The “Directory” is a list of everyone at Lafayette. You can easily search for people and send them an email just by clicking on their email address. Also, when you start typing someone’s name or Lafayette NetID into Gmail, their information will automatically pop up to save you time.
The “Emailed Contacts” list is automatically made for you. It keeps track of the name and email address of everyone you have ever sent an email to or received a message from. If you do not want to keep these names, you can easily delete them by moving your mouse over the list and clicking the trash can icon.
Next, you can either keep the names but delete the “Emailed Contacts” label. You can also delete both the names and the label completely. If you want to stop Gmail from saving these names and adding them to this list in the future, choose the second option to delete everything.
Note: Once you delete these names, Gmail will no longer help type their email addresses for you. The only exception is if those people are already saved in a different contact list or are listed in the official Lafayette Directory.
When you set up Gmail on your phone or on a computer program like Mac Mail or Outlook, you can choose to sync your contacts too. This will copy over all your Google Contacts, including everyone on your “Emailed Contacts” list.
Many smartphones also let you add the full school Directory to your address book. In your phone’s contact settings, this is usually called the Global Address List.
Google Contacts does not let you share a specific contact list (or label) with another person. If you want to share a list of contacts, you have to export the list as a file. Once you do that, you can then send that file to the other person and have them import it into their own Google Contacts list.
