Step by step: how to set up your Gmail account in Windows 10 Mail and Contacts

Now that modern Mail and Contacts apps can be used on the Windows 10 desktop, like regular windows, many People have decided to give them a try, starting to use them as default apps to manage their accounts.

However, there are many other users who have not yet dared to take this step, in many cases because they think that, as they are Microsoft applications, they will not work properly with accounts from other companies, as Gmail from Google.

But this is not the case, both the Mail app, as well as those of Contacts and Calendar integrate perfectly with Google accounts , and from other providers, such as Yahoo and Apple's iCloud. Here at Xataka Windows we already taught at the time how to configure a Google account with the Calendar app, and now we will show how to do the same with the Mail and Contacts applications.

• "To get started, open the Mail application (Start menu > type Mail > press Enter)."
• Once inside it, click on the configuration button in the lower-left corner.
• Doing so will open a panel to the right. There you have to select Accounts > Add account .

• Then we will have to enter our Google credentials (username and password) and give permission to the Mail application to access the account information.
• Finally, we are asked to indicate the name that we want to be displayed when sending emails from the application.

And that's it, the Gmail account will now be added to the Mail app, and we can read and send messages from it.

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In case we have several email accounts added, we can switch between them by pressing the button Accounts>pin to Start the Gmail inbox, in order to access more quickly she."

Managing Gmail contacts in the Contacts app

When you add your Gmail account in the Mail app, the contacts for it should be automatically synced to the Contacts app. However, we can make a couple of additional tweaks to make the integration with Gmail contacts even better.

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First, we can configure the Contacts app so that all new contacts we create from Windows 10 are added to the Gmail account , and not in another (remember that this application serves as a hub>"

To do this you must do the following:

• "Open the Contacts application (Start menu > type Contacts> press Enter)."
• Press the '+' button at the top.
• Choose the Gmail account when asked where we want to save the contacts. And ready.

Also, if we have added contacts from various accounts, we may be interested in showing only Gmail contacts, in order to have a Less overcrowded contact list. To achieve this you must:

• "Click on the …> icon to select Settings."
• "In the configuration section we scroll down, and select the option Filter contact list."
• "Finally, a box like the following will appear, where you have to uncheck all accounts other than Gmail (or the main account you want to use), and press Done. "

Have any of you been using Windows 10 apps with Google accounts? What was your experience like? ?

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