Outlook Duplicate Contact Entries

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/outlook-help/resolve-or-delete-duplicate-contacts-HP010355041.aspx

I use this great and free tool

http://www.vaita.com/ODIR.asp

If you want to use software then consider:

http://www.addictivetips.com/microsoft-office/automatically-remove-duplicate-contacts-from-outlook-2010-folders-add-in/

or

http://www.vaita.com/ODIR.asp

ODIR give error unable to read your pst file...
Using Outlook 2010 32 bit...?

Use the export and reimport to be sure as suggested in my 1st post

I tried your 1st post, but it simply re-imports all the items...Afraid software is required.

and this is to be expected as it compares what is against what needs to be imported.

After the import you could look at organising with a view to deleting:

http://blog.link2exchange.com/how-to-remove-duplicate-contacts-from-outlook-2007-2010/

There are too many items to go this route .... 2000+

Any other software options that U know work well pls?

The demo mode allowing deletion of 10 items didn't remove anything....
http://www.addictivetips.com/microsoft-office/automatically-remove-duplicate-contacts-from-outlook-2010-folders-add-in/

Untried but:

http://en.kioskea.net/download/download-12851-outlook-2010-duplicate-remover

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/duplicates-addins/remove-duplicate-contacts-from-outlook/


http://www.scrubly.com/info/features/detail/remove-duplicate-contacts-outlook


http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Other-Office-Tools/Remove-Duplicate-Contacts.shtml

Anyone out there with something tried and tested as these links are just groping in the dark...

Any solid suggestions please - i am looking for something that you know works.

There's a bunch of missing information that makes it difficult to really offer a solution.
Are you in a domain environment which has a shared contacts database?
If you exported your contacts, did you oppen the CSV file in Excel to inspect it?
And, if you did, were there any duplicates?
or,
from a different tact, do you have multiple PST files open?  ( If you do, you will see the contacts within each PST! )

Is there a possibility to find a Outlook 2007 where you can create the affect user Outlook profile and Install ODIR and fix the duplication issues ..... i have used ODIR and is a perfect tool

- Rancy

Hi DavisMcCarn, Standalone pst.
Duplicates in xls.
Perhaps can xport to xls and then use xls script to find diplucates and the re-import... any ideas?

Yes you can Export to PST save the file create a new one remove Duplicates and then Import

- Rancy

Duplicate contacts are usually the result of importing two PST's with almost identical contacts; but, here is a fast way to view and sort them by the creation date which would let you select then delete them in Outlook at one fell swoop: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2700/outlook_how_to_delete_duplicated_contacts/

What tools will do it in xls?
DavisMcCarn: Good Thinking... I tried but there is no clear pattern unfortunately.
Issue came in with a sync from BB to Google account which had existing contacts in

Did you try using the Date Modified column?
Or, as Rancy suggested, ODIR is a nice (free) tool: http://www.vaita.com/ODIR.asp

Did you try using the Date Modified column? YES, See above
Or, as Rancy suggested, ODIR is a nice (free) tool: http://www.vaita.com/ODIR.asp
Won't run.
Say, Are there any demo versions of Outlook 2007 available still?

tx 4 try