There are easy to use solutions to your problem, like:
Delete duplicate contacts from Rsoutlook.com
http://www.rsoutlook.com/us/prods/prod11.html
Ricardo Silva [Outlook MVP]
Add-ins for Microsoft(c) Outlook(c)
http://www.rsoutlook.com/us/products.html
"morneauja" wrote in message
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Over the years I have accumulated contact information on family, friends,
colleagues, and service providers. Unfortunately over the years the
number
of duplicates has grown and grown thanks to synchronizations with a
Blackberry, a PDA, and a few Christmas card list imports. Some of the
duplicates contain information that is missing from another, one might
have
an old address paired with a birthday, a cell phone number in one and the
home number in another.
I know that in other programs, like Salesforce.com, it is possible to view
the fields of duplicate contacts and indentify the information that will
be
kept in the merged contact. I wish that this feature was available in
Outlook, because it would serve two purposes. It would reduce the fear
associated with accidentally deleting the most current information, and
minimize the time needed to clean up a contacts folder. The only
additional
request is that it be easy to use and not require a degree in software
engineering to run.
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