• Can I Merge Contacts From Two Gmail Accounts
• Merge Google Accounts

Collaboration between organizations is a common scenario. Many organizations after collaborations require to bring their employee’s account to a single platform. Due to this merging, Google accounts data becomes a common task for all the G Suite users. If you have G Suite account at school or work which is going to be deleted, or your organization is merging and you wish to move the data to different account then you need to merge multiple Google accounts account.

This requires combining of Google Apps like Gmail, Contacts, Calendars, and documents separately. To perform such a task, Google doesn’t provide any method to merge two Google account into one. But don’t worry, you can try the best-automated solution in the market to merge G Suite accounts. In this blog we have guided how to merge Google Apps accounts and get all your Google Apps Emails, Calendar, Contacts into a single account.

SysTools G Suite Merge tool is designed to make it hassle-free for the users to merge Google Apps accounts with another account without any data loss.

Merge Two Google Accounts into One – Why?

For understanding why a user wants to merge Google accounts into one, you need to read some queries we get on our forums:

“Hello All!, I have been using a G Suite account in my company for quite a long time and have too much data stored in my Google Apps. Soon, I am going to leave my company and looking for a method to merge all the data of my G Suite Business account to my personal G Suite account. I have searched for ways to perform this but didn’t found any good method to do so. Please, if someone knows the method to merge Google Apps accounts then please make me aware of that. Thanks!!”

• How to merge Google Contacts If you have contacts that you want to move from one account to another, it’s possible to create a backup of them, which can then be imported into Google Contacts.
• Transfer Google Contacts data between G Suite accounts. In the Contacts panel, check All Contacts. Click the Restore button, and in the dialog box that pops up, select User B from the dropdown list and click Restore. Note: If you select All Contacts, there is no need to restore each contact individually, because they are all included already.
• Search so that you can see both/all of the contacts you want to merge on the one results screen. Click the checkbox on the left hand size of the screen for the contacts you want to merge. From the More menu (at the top of the list of contacts), choose Merge Contacts.
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“Greetings! I am a High school student and our School is going to get over soon. We have been using the G Suite account provided by the school to save our daily work. This time, we all have been assigned with the last task to find the foolproof method to merge the school account into another account. I have read many posts at your blog site, and you always come up with good solutions. Please help me with this as well and provide a method to merge two G Suite accounts. Thank You.”

Reasons to Merge Multiple Google Accounts

• Change in Domain: The most common reason for merging Google Account is due to change in the domain as a result of changing company/organization or change in school/college.
• Limited Storage Space: Unlike other cloud based service, Google doesn’t provides Online archive which will increase the storage space when default storage maxed out. Due to this user has to created more Google accounts to store more data. That’s why it becomes necessary to merge two Google accounts into one account.
• Collaboration Between Organizations: Another most common case to merge multiple Google account is when two or more organization collaborate with each other. At then, they need to bring the users to a single G Suite domain or new domain.

Methods to Merge two G Suite Accounts:

In this blog, we will guide you with a step-wise approach to combine the Google Apps account. Following are the methods to merge two G Suite accounts:

Method 1: Merge G Suite Accounts Data using Google Takeout

Google Takeout utility is provided by Google for free. Google Apps users can create an archive that can be downloaded to the local system and further can be uploaded to the new account. But, this is a time-consuming approach as it becomes a trouble for the admin if he needs to merge multiple Google accounts at a time.

Method 2: Automated Method to Merge Google Accounts

The simple and stress-free method to merge two Google accounts into one is by using an automated approach. This approach allows you to merge multiple G Suite accounts at a time without any hurdle. We recommend you to use SysTools G Suite Merge Tool to perform this task. It is simple and easy to use tool to merge two GSuite accounts.

Advantages of using G Suite Merge Tool

• Merge multiple Google Apps like Gmail, Contacts, Calendar, and Documents
• Admin Credentials are necessary for merging Google accounts in bulk.
• It allows you to merge Google Apps accounts to another domain.
• It can merge multiple Google accounts user at the same time
• Merge tool can perform concurrent merging of multiple G Suite account
• Delta Merging feature to skip already merged data between Google accounts
• Multiple options to map between source and destination accounts
• Simple & user-friendly interface
• User can monitor the merging process

Features of Automated Tool to Merge Two G Suite Accounts

It provides Customize merging in your own way like:

• You can perform Category-wise Merging
• It Maintains the Integrity of Data while merging Google account data
• Option to perform Selective Data Migration of Google Apps

User ID Mapping for merging multiple Google accounts

• Fetch user option will automatically fetch source user ids
• You can add CSV file for multiple sources and destination mapping

Detailed Report feature after the Merging is completed

• List View allows you to see the Merging process in a detailed manner
• The tile view will generate a separate tile for each user containing a detailed report.
• You can Download the Merge Report after the process is completed.

A step-by-step Approach to Merge Multiple Google Accounts

Following is the step-wise approach to merge two Google accounts into one account:

Note: Kindly fulfill all the Prerequisites mentioned in the product Guide before starting the merging of two G Suite Accounts.

1. First, Download and launch the G Suite Merger and Activate it.

2. Select the Source & Destination platform as “G Suite” from the given options.

3. From the Workload section, choose the category of data to be merged, apply permission for Group calendar and document.

4. In the Source window, enter the G Suite Admin Id, Application Id, and browse p12 file of the source. Click on the Validate key for the authentication of ids.

5. For Destination also, enter G Suite Admin Id, Application id, and browse destination p12 file & Validate.

6. Now, for source and destination user id mapping, choose the option provided in the tool.

7. After completion of mapping, the tool will preview the mapped accounts into the tool. Click on Validate key for account authentication.

8. Finally, Click on the Start button to merge two Google accounts.

Conclusion:

In this blog, we have discussed the manual as well as an automated approach to merge multiple Google accounts. If we compare both of the methods then the automated approach is far better than the manual one because it is fast as well as easy to implement. Rest assured, we have carefully tested the automated approach for merging Google Apps data. Moreover, the G Suite merge tool will not save any kind of information on the user account so, it is completely safe to use the software for merging the Google Accounts. You can try the demo version of the tool which will provide the option to merge two complete Google account for free.

How to merge duplicate contacts in Outlook?

When we copy/move contacts from one folder to another in Outlook, duplicate contacts will very likely come out. Removing the duplicate contacts may not be the better way, because one contact may contain fields that the other duplicate one leaving as blank. As a result, some user think of merging duplicates. In this article, I will show you how to merge duplicate contacts in Outlook.

Merge duplicate contacts during moving in Outlook 2010 or a later version
Merge duplicate contacts during moving in Outlook 2007
Easily merge existing duplicate contacts in specified contacts folders with Kutools for Outlook

Merge duplicate contacts during moving in Outlook 2010 or a later version

Let’s say you will move all contacts from A folder to B folder in Outlook. To merge duplicate contacts during moving, you can do as following.

Step 1: Click the File> Options.

Step 2: In the Outlook Options dialog box, click the People(or Contacts) in the left bar, then check the option of Check for duplicates when saving new contactsin the Names and filling section.

Step 3: Click the OK button to close the Outlook Options dialog box.

Step 4: Shift to the People view (or Contacts) view, open the A folder in the Navigation Pane, select one contact in the folder, and then select all contacts with clicking the Ctrl +Akeys in a meanwhile.

Step 5: Right click the selected contacts, and then click the Move > B folder from the right-clicking menu. See screen shot below:

Note: If the destination folder is not listing in the right-clicking menu, just click the Move> Other Folder from the right-clicking menu, and then specify the destination folder and click OKbutton in the Move Items dialog box.

Step 6: If duplicate contacts exist, it will pop up the Duplicate Contact Detected dialog box. Just click the Update Allbutton.

Then all contacts in A folder were moved to the B folder with all duplicate contacts merged.

Merge duplicate contacts during moving in Outlook 2007

In Outlook 2007, if you want to merge duplicate contacts when moving from one folder to the other, you also need to enable the option of Check for duplicate contacts.

Step 1: Click the Tools> Options.

Step 2: In the opening Options dialog box, click the Contact Optionsbutton.

Step 3: In the new Contact Options dialog box, check the option of Check for duplicate contactsin the Name and filing options for new contactssection.

Step 4: Click two OKbuttons to close both dialog boxes.

Then you can follow the same steps as we introduced in the Outlook 2010 or a later version to merge duplicate contacts when moving from one folder to another.

Easily merge existing duplicate contacts in specified contacts folders with Kutools for Outlook

To easily merge all existing duplicate contacts in specified contacts folders in Outlook, here I recommend the Merge Duplicate Contacts utility of Kutools for Outlook. Please do as follows to get it done.

1. Click Kutools> Delete Duplicate> Duplicate Contacts to enable this feature.

Note:If there are multiple email accounts with large contacts folders in your Outlook, a loading contacts folder(s) window will pop up. You can skip the current loading email account to increase the loading speed based on your needs, or just wait until all contacts folders are finish loading.

2. After finishing loading contacts folders, the Duplicate Contacts – Step 1(of 4) wizard pops up. Please check the Contacts folder(s) containing duplicate contacts you will merge, and then click the Next: Select contacts fields for duplicate comparison button.

Tips:

• 1. When selecting folders, you can right click the folder list for more quick options as the above screenshot shown.
• 2. All selected folders are listed in the right box, you can delete, sort them as you need. And the contacts list in the above folder will be priority to be retained when handling duplicates.

3. In the Please select Contacts fields for duplicate comparison box of the Duplicate Contacts – Step 2(of 4) wizard, please select contacts fields to filter duplicate contacts, and then click the Next: Select the fields to be listed in results button.

Note: If you check the Search all duplicates in selected Contacts folders option, the duplicate contacts within all selected folders will be searched. Otherwise, the duplicates will be searched in their own contacts folder separately.

4. In the Duplicate Contacts – Step 3(of 4) wizard, specify the fields to be listed in the results box, and then click theStart filtering button.

5. In the Duplicate Contacts – step 4(of 4) wizard, please configure as follows.

• 5.1) Expand a group, you can click a duplicate contact to preview its information in the Contact information preview box;
• 5.2) In the How to deal with the duplicate contacts? drop-down list, select the Merge option;
• 5.3) Click the Merge button to start merging duplicate contacts.

6. Click OK in the popping up Kutools for Outlook dialog box.

Now all duplicate contacts in specified folders are merged. You can see the handled duplicate contacts are marked with a strikethrough in the Result list. Please close the Duplicate Contacts wizard to end the process.

Notes

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  I started with 4 contact records for the same contact. Following these instructions I now have 11. This does not work! DO NOT USE THIS
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  Have to move to folder, then back again. Merge popup initiates on the second move.
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  @Nicole Hoevertsz You actually need to copy then move... the instructions are wrong
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  I followed the steps indicated above, but the duplicate contacts did not merge. In other words, no action took place.