Syncing only Music - is it possible without wiping out contacts on iPhone?

I have my iPhone synced with my laptop at home but since we're allowed to use iTunes at work, my library at work has become much larger and I'd like to transfer my music here onto my iPhone but I'm worried it will wipe out my contacts. My apps are already synced with iTunes at work, and I tried syncing the music but a message pops up that says "this phone is synced with another computer. Are you sure you want to erase the contents and replace it with the contents of this iTunes library?" so I hit cancel because that message somewhat worries me. I do not have any videos or photos or podcasts on the phone so I'm not worried about that but if I lose the contacts I have no way of getting some of them back since I've entered some of them directly into the phone in the past few months. Help!!

Contacts are not affected by the erase. In fact, unlike music, you can sync contacts/calendars with multiple computers.

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Can somebody tell me if there is a user friendly way to sync my music with my iPad (from iTunes on a PC) without syncing my apps?
I think I have tried to select and deselect every combination there is, but every combination results in iTunes attempting to sync all of my apps, even deleted ones. This "will install/install," "will remove/remove" button system does not seem to work the way Apple says it will. I am at my wit's end trying to figure this out and all I wanted to do was free up some storage by removing some music I don't listen to very often.

Hello joyride68
The easiest way to do this is to go to the iTunes Preferences and go to the Devices tab and check “Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically” so that iTunes does not sync anything. The next thing is to make sure that Manually manage music and videos is check, then you can drag and drop the music you want on there and remove anything that you do not want.
iTunes 11 for Windows: Require a prompt before automatic syncing
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12320
Managing content manually on iPhone, iPad, and iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535
Regards,
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