Solved How can I save a new contact in G-mail

[Melita]

I use 'Basic HTML' view in G-mail. How can I manually save a new contact to my contacts list, by typing the e-mail of the contact and saving it?

Thank you,

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
See if this helps,
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6594?hl=en
Otherwise in an open gmail window simply use Shift+? to see them all

 

[Melita]

Hi,
See if this helps,
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6594?hl=en
Otherwise in an open gmail window simply use Shift+? to see them all

Thank you for the link but it does not help. On the gmail 'Contacts' page, I can't find a tab, a radio button or a link to where I can enter the e-mail address of a new contact and save it to the list of contacts. This problem is with 'Basic HTML view'

Thank you,

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Go to GMail contacts and where the yellow marker is hit enter which will all you to add the name of your contact.
Then go to list of contacts, find that name, then hit edit where you can add e-mail address, home address and any important info on that contact.

Hope this is what you are looking for. Post back if you need more help or we have helped you. This is the way we all learn.
THW

 

[Melita]

In 'Basic HTML view' of gmail, the yellow marker does not appear. Please see attachment.

I am really looking to add a new contact to the list. An e-mail address I received over the phone, for instance.

Regards,

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Then go to compose an e-mail to your new contact, then save as a new contact.
THW

 

[Melita]

Do you mean, to send and e-mail to the new contact and then from the sent e-mail to save it?

Regards,

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Melita,
I may have given you how to save contact on my laptop/desktop not on a phone.
My phone is a flip top where I just make/receive calls when I was away from my wife. Used only to check on her.
It had no internet or text capability. Sorry!
THW

 

[The Howling Wolves]

I Googled "How to save contacts using HTML" and came up with these links.
javascript - Save contact number to mobile phone - Stack Overflow

Read #2
Hope this helps.

 

[Melita]

Hello THW,

I am sorry if you got the wrong impression, but this question is for a 15.5" laptop and not for a phone. This laptop Internet connection is very slow and only Basic HTML work for gmail. The option to include a contact (with the e-mail address etc.), cannot be found in the 'contacts' page or 'Compose' page or anywhere else in gmail when in Basic HTML view. That is what I am really after, to find a way to do this.

Thank you,

 

[DavidE]

It looks like adding a Contact is not supported in Basic HTML view

Basic HTML view

Basic HTML view is what you’ll see when you sign in to Gmail using a browser that is not supported. For a preview, see basic HTML view. This view is compatible with almost any browser but does not support the following features:

• Chat
• Spell checker
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Adding or importing contacts
• Custom 'From:' addresses
• Rich formatting

If you need to access these features, please sign in to Gmail from a supported browser, and make sure you have cookies and JavaScript enabled.

Source: Standard view and basic HTML view

 

[Melita]

Hello DavidE,

I reckon that settles it. Many thanks for digging up this information. I posted this question in gmail forum too but there was only a loud silence from them!

Kind regards,

 

[DavidE]

Hi Melita,

You're welcome for the info.
If you can switch to Standard view there are some setting changes you could try.
Maybe Standard view would work ok with dialup ...
1) Disable Displaying External Images
2) Set the Maximum page size to 10 for Conversations per page and the min for Contacts per page

If that doesn't help, can you take the laptop somewhere and connect with hi-speed internet.
You could then periodically switch to Standard temporarily and add any new contacts.

 

[Melita]

Thank you again for all this help. It is really for a friend that I made this inquiry. I am helping out because she has a slow connection and English is her second language. She'll be glad to have this new information and of course she can come to my place and access 'Standard view', as you suggest. I have ADSL Broadband.

Your detailed help is greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,