Quickly delete or remove duplicate contacts in Outlook

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Quickly delete or remove duplicate contacts in Outlook

Kutools for Outlook

When you importing contacts into Outlook from an excel spreadsheet or other applications, the duplicate contacts may have been created in your contacts folder. To delete all the reduplicate ones, for most Outlook users, that's an annoying and time-consuming task. But today, with Kutools for Outlook's Delete Duplicate Contacts utility, you can quickly delete all duplicate contacts from your Outlook contacts folder at once.

Quickly delete or remove duplicate contacts in Outlook

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Quickly delete or remove duplicate contacts in Outlook

To quickly delete all duplicate contacts in Outlook, you can get it done as follows.

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1. Click Kutools > Delete Duplicate Contacts in Delete Mails group. See screenshot:
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2. In the Duplicate Contacts dialog, do as below operation:

1, Check the attribute options you want to compare contacts if are duplicates, click All to check all options, click None to uncheck all.

2, Select the folder(s) you want to find contacts from, the total number of data source and contacts will be list, click All to check all options, click None to uncheck all.

3, Click Enable default duplicate rules to reset the rules to default.
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3. Click OK, a dialog pops out to remind you back up contacts first.
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4. Click Yes and select one folder to output the contacts. See screenshot:
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If you do not want to back up, click No to directly delete duplicate contact.

5. Click OK, then the duplicate contacts which with same email 1 address and full name have been deleted.
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6. Click OK to close the Kutools for Outlook dialog, then the result contacts and delete contact(s) are list in the Duplicate Contacts dialog.
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Demo: remove duplicate contacts in Outlook

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