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Export and save your Gmail Address Book Contacts!

I've become addicted to Gmail thanks to your writeups and based on my intense dissatisfaction with Hotmail. Now, however, I find that I'd like to export my address book from Gmail so I can import it into a different email program as a backup. Is that doable?

Actually, you're in luck. Apparently this capability was just recently added to the Gmail service, and it's relatively straightforward:

Log in to your Gmail account, then click on Contacts on the left side. You'll see...