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

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1. Click Kutools > Duplicate Contacts in Contact group. See screenshot:

If you are in Narrow view of Kutools for Outlook, click Kutools Plus > Duplicate Contacts.

2. In the Duplicate Contacts dialog, please specify the Contacts folder that you want to delete duplicates. See screenshot:

3. Then click Next button to go the Duplicate Contacts - Settings - Step 1 (of 3) wizard, check the contacts fields criteria that you want to delete the duplicates based on, see screenshot:

Note: If you check Search all duplicates in selected Contacts folders option, the duplicate contacts within all selected folders will be searched. If you don’t check this option, the duplicates will be searched in their own contacts folder separately.

4. Go on clicking Next button, in the second wizard, please choose one option that you want to deal with the duplicate contacts from the Select a way to delete / merge the duplicate contacts section.

You can select Delete permanently, Delete (Move to “Delete Items” Folder), Move all duplicates (except the first one) to folder or Move all duplicates (include the first one) to folder as you need, see screenshot:

Note: If you choose Move all duplicates to folder option, you should select a contact folder to put the duplicate contacts by clicking the Browse button, see screenshot:

5. Then, click Next button, in the third wizard, please do the following operations:

(1.) You can back up the contacts as you need;

(2.) Specify the duplicate contacts result information after searching the duplicates in the Operation Result section;

(3.) Check or uncheck Display all contacts as you need. ( Uncheck will only display duplicate contacts)

6. And then click Next button, when you want to backup the contacts, a prompt box will pop out to remind you saving the original contacts as following screenshot shown:

7. Then click OK button, you will get the following results:

(1.) If you don’t check Search all duplicates in selected Contacts folders option in step 3, all duplicates in their own contacts folder will be searched out, see screenshot:

(2.) If you check Search all duplicates in selected Contacts folders option in step 3, all duplicates in the selected contacts folder will be searched out, see screenshot:

8. At last, click Execute button to start running this feature, and then all duplicates will be deleted or moved as you need.

Notes:

(1) You can check Delete / merge the duplicate contacts directly option after configuring the settings first time, then click Start button to execute this feature at once, see screenshot:

(2) This feature will also delete duplicate contact groups.

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Demo: Delete or move duplicate contacts in Outlook

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