Bad idea. Never try to transfer Outlook data by exporting and importing. Not
only will you fail to prevent duplicates, you will lose or alter other data
along the way.
Next time just copy the Outlook data file, open it in the laptop, and
replace the contents of the laptops Contacts folder with the Contacts from
the desktop. It's a simple copy and paste operation.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Kim" wrote in message
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We have 2 computers with Outlook 2003. To synchronize, we do an export
from
the desktop to a CD. Then we import the data into Outlook on the laptop.
Even though I am checking off Do Not Import/Export Duplicates, it still
results in duplicate contact records. Does anyone have any suggestions on
how to prevent the duplicates from being created. I only want the new
contact records to install.