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Deleting Duplicate E:mail
I just imported my E:mail into my outlook Office XP database. However it has duplicate all of my E:mailes about 5 times. Is there a simple way to delete the duplicates other htan manually in Outlook?
Not unless you want to do some VBA coding.
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From the list at the top of the Field Chooser, click to select the "All Mail Fields".
4. Drag the Modified field to the inbox heading.
I am in outlook and right clicked subject and am looking at the "all mail fields" I am not exactly sure what to do now... it just gives me a list of directories on the bottom. Which one am I supposed to drag?
4. Drag the Modified field to the inbox heading.
I am in outlook and right clicked subject and am looking at the "all mail fields" I am not exactly sure what to do now... it just gives me a list of directories on the bottom. Which one am I supposed to drag?
With the "Field Chooser" open click on "Modified" and hold down on the mouse button while you move the mouse to the top of your Outlook Folder ( to the gray bar which says FROM, SUBJECT, etc ).
Put the mouse in between two other columns. You'll see two red arrows pointing to the column heading bar when you are at a point where the new field can be inserted, so let go of the mouse button at that point and the field will be added to your view.
Now proceed with step # 5
Put the mouse in between two other columns. You'll see two red arrows pointing to the column heading bar when you are at a point where the new field can be inserted, so let go of the mouse button at that point and the field will be added to your view.
Now proceed with step # 5
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I see I was just hoping there was a way for you to do a search and destroy for E:mails that have the same exact thing automaticly instead of by hand since I have 30,000 E:mails
I'm not sure I understand your point, unless you are trying to do this a specific way for philisophical reasons. Are you sure you are following the instructions above completely?
The imported duplicates were all imported at the same time, therefore their modified date/time is the same, so when you click on the "Modified" column heading they will all be grouped together and easily deleted/moved/etc...
It doesn't matter how many emails you have, 10 or 10,000. Click the top duplicate, hold shift and click the bottom duplicate, hit delete. Boom, you are done in 10 seconds.
It's kind of like saying "Yes, having my contacts in alphabetical order would be easier, but I'd rather create a search bot which finds the contacts in an unordered list than to click the already existing button which alphabetizes the list"
The imported duplicates were all imported at the same time, therefore their modified date/time is the same, so when you click on the "Modified" column heading they will all be grouped together and easily deleted/moved/etc...
It doesn't matter how many emails you have, 10 or 10,000. Click the top duplicate, hold shift and click the bottom duplicate, hit delete. Boom, you are done in 10 seconds.
It's kind of like saying "Yes, having my contacts in alphabetical order would be easier, but I'd rather create a search bot which finds the contacts in an unordered list than to click the already existing button which alphabetizes the list"