Help Google, Please Make It Possible To Duplicate a Contact

[dmmiller2k]

Unlike 99.9% of the threads matching the keywords "contact" and "duplicate", who apparently want to get RID of their duplicate contacts (RTFM, guys), I would like to basically do the opposite: that is, to create a new contact by duplicating an existing one.

Frequently, I must create a new contact entry that is MOSTLY IDENTICAL to an existing one, with maybe just the name and phone number different (i.e., members of a family or employees of a company).

On my old Palm device, I could simply duplicate a Contact entry then replace the fields that differed with new values.

I really don't care where if it must happen: either in GMail on a full-fledged browser/computer, or on my Android-based device (Moto Droid, BTW), since they have become largely interchangeable, but at the moment, it is impossible either way.

Google, are you listening? How hard could this be?

 

[fox]

you can always separate contacts.

first to seperate there needs to be two numbers or something that can be separated. so if you have two differing numbers you could do something like this.

in contacts, select the person to separate.
hit menu button
hit edit contact
hit menu button again
hit separate

if this separates to much information, just do the same thing and select what you want to join.

 

[obutto]

or you can make your contacts via internet browser (on comp) and just copy paste. its not that hard.

 

[dmmiller2k]

or you can make your contacts via internet browser (on comp) and just copy paste. its not that hard.

Not hard, but tedious and error-prone. How about being provided a way to do it in one operation?

Not convenient now.