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      type="topic" id="contacts-google">

  <info>
    <desc>Use the online address book of your Google account.</desc>
    
    <link type="guide" xref="contacts-using-several-addressbooks"/>
    <link type="guide" xref="google-services"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.1.5" version="0.3" date="2011-07-28" status="final"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name>
      <email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>

  </info>

<title>Using a Google addressbook</title>

<p>To add such an address book to Evolution, perform the following steps:</p>
<steps>
<item><p>Click <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>New</gui><gui>Address Book</gui></guiseq>.</p></item>
<item><p>Select the type <gui>Google</gui>.</p></item>
<item><p>Enter a name that you prefer.</p></item>
<item><p>Choose if you want to be able to view the content also when being offline.</p></item>
<item><p>Enter your Google username.</p></item>
<item><p>Choose <gui>Use secure connection</gui> if you want to connect securely.</p></item>
<item><p>Click <gui style="button">Apply</gui>.</p></item>
</steps>

<p>The address book will be added to the list of address books in Evolution.</p>

</page>