Resolve the Issue of Duplicate Outlook Contacts - Delete Duplicate Contacts in Outlook

Two Situations Where Duplicate Outlook Contacts Created:

1. Are you using Outlook for saving contacts for personal or professional purpose? If yes, then you must be storing contact along with complete information like e-mail addresses, fax numbers, telephone and Web page URLs. With the same name or e-mail name as one that already exists in your contacts folder, Microsoft Outlook displays a dialog box with options to either add the duplicate contact as a new contact or update the existing contact with the new information from the duplicate contact.

2. Another situation in which duplicate contacts are created is when you transfer contacts into Outlook from some other email application or from Older Outlook version to newer one.

Manual Method to Delete Duplicate in Outlook:

1. Go to contacts and select the contacts folder containing duplicate contacts.
2. In the Navigation Pane, under current view, click Phone List in order to scan your contacts list and see the duplicate contacts. Now you can sort the list by modified date and group the duplicates together.
3. Select, view menu, point to Current View, and then click customize current view.
4. Next, Press fields, choose Modified in the available fields list, and then click add.
5. Click move up until Modified is at the top of the Show these fields in this order list.
6. Click OK twice.
7. Go to contact list and hold down CTRL while you select each duplicate contact.
8. After selecting all the duplicate contacts, press DELETE.

Manual Method (Not recommended):The method mentioned above to remove Outlook duplicate contacts is not suggested because you need to rewrite the contacts one by one which is long and time-consuming task. So, it is better not to use this method and in place of it you can use duplicate remover for Outlook with the help of some reliable third-party tool.

How to Delete Duplicate in Outlook? You can use SysTools Outlook Duplicates Remover using which you can quickly manage Outlook contacts as the tool will delete duplicate contacts in Outlook easily. Other than removing duplicate Outlook contacts you can also remove all Outlook items like emails, journals, tasks, to-do-list etc, with the help of this proficient Outlook duplicate items remover. The tool employs high and advanced technology to delete duplicate contacts in Outlook but this doesn’t mean that tool is difficult to use. It is so simple to use that even an entry level computer user can remove duplicate Outlook contacts with utter ease.