How to export contacts on Doro 8040
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How to export your contacts on your Doro 8040
We will see in this tutorial how export your contacts on your Doro 8040. Contacts are a very important feature of your Doro 8040 and so you may want to export them from your Doro 8040 to another phone or the Cloud.
To make the best use of the features offered by the contacts it is very simple.
We will see how to export your contacts from your Doro 8040 to another smartphone first, from your Google account located in the ‘Cloud’ in a second step, thirdly from files in vCard format or VCF files, and to finish CSV files Editable with a spreadsheet application like Google Sheet.
Export your contacts from another device to your Doro 8040
To export contacts from another device, you must first export them to your SIM card or an SD card.
To do this, you will need to insert a SIM or SD card into your new Doro 8040. Once done, go to the "Contacts" category of your Doro 8040. In this menu, you can press the ‘Settings’ button at the bottom right of your Doro 8040. An ‘Export’ option to the SIM card or Memory card will be available.
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Press it depending on your backup mode.
Follow the on-screen instructions and your contacts will be exported to your backup media inserted in your Doro 8040.
Export your contacts from Google Cloud to your Doro 8040
This is a little known but very interesting option for who knows how to do it: export your contacts from the Cloud to your Doro 8040. To do this, go to the ‘Settings’ menu, accessible from the home screen of your Doro 8040, then in ‘Account and Synchronization’. Once there, click on your Google Account.
This opens a new window that will allow you to check the synchronizations of contacts, emails and calendars.
Choose what you want to activate and it will automatically export your contacts to the Google Cloud.
Export your contacts to a VCF file on your Doro 8040
Another option to export your contacts from Doro 8040 is to use the VCF file system. This option will allow you, along with CSV files, to share your contact lists from your Doro 8040. As in our first paragraph, go to the ‘Import / Export’ section of the ‘Contacts’ folder of your Doro 8040. From there, click on ‘Export’ and then choose the VCF format.
Once you have validated the operation and selected the source VCF file, you can export all your contacts from your Doro 8040. Conversely, you can import contacts to make a new backup on your Doro 8040.
Export your contacts to a CSV file from your Doro 8040
If you want your files to be in CSV format, then exporting them to your Doro 8040 will require you to export them from your Gmail account.
Once in your Gmail account, click ‘Contacts’ above the Email Dial button.
Then click ‘More Actions’ and finally ‘Export’. Choose the CSV file to which you want to export your contacts, and validate.
Once finished, you can synchronize any Doro 8040 with your Gmail account as mentioned in the previous paragraph.