{"id":1497,"date":"2021-08-17T13:08:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mailsdaddy.com\/blogs\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2023-08-06T09:58:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T09:58:44","slug":"merge-remove-duplicate-contacts-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mailsdaddy.com\/blogs\/merge-remove-duplicate-contacts-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Merge or Remove Duplicate Contacts in Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one can ignore the best performance of MS Outlook for secure emailing in businesses and enterprises. It is one of the recommended email client by professionals because it has all the features and functionality that is needed. Outlook offers multiple features and one of them is Contact.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes moving or merging contacts from one folder to another may create duplicate contacts in outlook. By removing the duplicate contacts you may lose some of the information because one contact may contain some information that is not there in other. Here we will discuss how users can get away from this issue and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mailsdaddy.com\/pst-merge-and-join\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">merge duplicate contacts in Outlook<\/a>. Let\u2019s start:-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.mailsdaddy.com\/blogs\/merge-remove-duplicate-contacts-outlook\/#1_-_Remove_Duplicate_Contacts_Using_Free_Manual_Method_%E2%80%93\" >1:- Remove Duplicate Contacts Using Free Manual Method \u2013<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mailsdaddy.com\/blogs\/merge-remove-duplicate-contacts-outlook\/#A_Merge_Multiple_Contact_Folders_and_Remove_Duplicate_Contacts_in_Outlook\" >A: Merge Multiple Contact Folders and Remove Duplicate Contacts in Outlook:-<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mailsdaddy.com\/blogs\/merge-remove-duplicate-contacts-outlook\/#B_Remove_Duplicate_Contacts_from_A_single_Contact_Folder_in_Outlook\" >B: Remove Duplicate Contacts from A single Contact Folder in Outlook:-<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mailsdaddy.com\/blogs\/merge-remove-duplicate-contacts-outlook\/#2_-_Merge_Duplicate_Contact_in_Outlook_Using_Advanced_Technical_Method\" >2:- Merge Duplicate Contact in Outlook Using Advanced Technical Method:-<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mailsdaddy.com\/blogs\/merge-remove-duplicate-contacts-outlook\/#Feature_to_Consolidate_PST_files\" >Feature to Consolidate PST files:-<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_Consolidate_Duplicate_Contacts_in_Outlook\"><\/span><strong>How to Consolidate Duplicate Contacts in Outlook:-<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Using Free Manual Method<\/li>\n<li>Using Advanced Technical Method<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_-_Remove_Duplicate_Contacts_Using_Free_Manual_Method_%E2%80%93\"><\/span><strong>1:- Remove Duplicate Contacts Using Free Manual Method \u2013<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Here you will know two different techniques to skip matched contacts in Outlook, that are:-<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Merge_Multiple_Contact_Folders_and_Remove_Duplicate_Contacts_in_Outlook\"><\/span><strong>A: Merge Multiple Contact Folders and Remove Duplicate Contacts in Outlook:-<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>If you want to combine one contact folder into another folder in Outlook with skipping all duplicate contacts, follow the below-given steps.<\/p>\n<p>1:- Open MS Outlook, click on the <strong>File<\/strong> and choose the <strong>Options<\/strong> tab.<\/p>\n<p>2:- After that select the <strong>People<\/strong> button and enable <strong>Check for duplicates when saving new contacts<\/strong> check-box in the <strong>Names and Filling<\/strong> section.<\/p>\n<p>3:- Now Click on <strong>OK<\/strong> and <strong>Close<\/strong> it.<\/p>\n<p>4:- Now Select <strong>People<\/strong> in the lower corner of the Outlook panel.<\/p>\n<p>5:- After that go on that folder which contacts you want to shift in another folder.<\/p>\n<p>6:- Now select all contact using \u201c<strong>Ctrl + A<\/strong>\u201d &gt;&gt; Right-click in mouse and choose the <strong>Move<\/strong> option.<\/p>\n<p>7:- In the sub-menu, select that contact folder in which you want to move all these contacts.<\/p>\n<p>8:- If in this process system gets any duplicate contacts, Outlook will open a <strong>Duplicate Contacts Detected<\/strong> new window.<\/p>\n<p>9:- Here simply click on the <strong>Update All<\/strong> button and with till the process is over.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"B_Remove_Duplicate_Contacts_from_A_single_Contact_Folder_in_Outlook\"><\/span><strong>B: Remove Duplicate Contacts from A single Contact Folder in Outlook:-<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>If you have a single contact folder list and on that multiple contacts are duplicate, follow the below steps to delete duplicate contacts:-<\/p>\n<p><strong>Create New Folder:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1:- Open Microsoft Outlook and go to the <strong>People<\/strong> in the lower-left corner of the Outlook panel.<\/p>\n<p>2:- Now right-click on the sub-option<strong> Contact <\/strong>of <strong>My Contact<\/strong> and Hit on <strong>New Folder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>3:- Now provide the folder name \u201cHere I use \u2018<strong>IMDuplicate\u2019 <\/strong>folder name\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Move all Contact folders contacts in New Created Folder:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1:-Select all contact of Contact folders using <strong>Ctrl + A<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>2:- Now Using the drag &amp; drop method, move all selected contact in the new folder \u201c<strong>IMDuplicate<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Export Contacts in .csv:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1:- In Outlook select <strong>File<\/strong> menu &gt;&gt; click on <strong>Open and Export<\/strong> and choose <strong>Import\/Export<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>2:- Select <strong>Export to a file<\/strong> then <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>3:- Choose <strong>Comma Separated Values<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>4:- Now click on the new created folder \u201c<strong>IMDuplicate<\/strong>\u201d and <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>5:- After that <strong>Browse<\/strong> and provide the destination location of the converted .csv file.<\/p>\n<p>6:- At last <strong>Finish<\/strong> this process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Import .csv file in original Contact folder:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1:- Again go to <strong>Import and Export Wizard<\/strong> and choose <strong>Import from another program or file<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>2:- Select <strong>Comma Separated Values<\/strong> and then <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>3:- Now browse and import the converted .csv file &gt;&gt; Select <strong>Do not import Duplicate items<\/strong> and click on <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>4:- Now select <strong>Contacts<\/strong> folder and then next.<\/p>\n<p>5:- Finely click on the\u00a0<strong>Finish<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p>6:- After this process deleted the newly created folder \u201c<strong>IMDuplicate<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:-<\/strong> As you saw above manual method takes a long time in removing duplicate contacts. Moreover, there is no surety that you will get the accurate result using the free manual trick. So most of the users prefer to use any third-party tool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_-_Merge_Duplicate_Contact_in_Outlook_Using_Advanced_Technical_Method\"><\/span><strong>2:- Merge Duplicate Contact in Outlook Using Advanced Technical Method:-<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>MailsDaddy offers a perfect solution <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mailsdaddy.com\/pst-merge-and-join\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PST Merger Tool<\/a><\/strong> that not only merges PST file contacts with skipping duplicate contacts but also helps to combine all Outlook data items with removing duplicate databases, like- email, notes, calendars. Tasks, etc. The software offers a skip duplicate items button that is helpful to combine multiple PST files into a single PST file with removing all duplicate contents.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Feature_to_Consolidate_PST_files\"><\/span><strong>Feature to Consolidate PST files:-<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>1:- Provides 100% safe and secure results and helps to improve the performance of Outlook.<\/p>\n<p>2:- Offers to merge multiple PST files contact and other items with skipping supplicate content.<\/p>\n<p>3:- Enables to merge Password Protected, ANSI, Unicode, and Archive Microsoft PST files.<\/p>\n<p>4:- Support MS Outlook 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003, and other older editions.<\/p>\n<p>5:- The best thing is here that users can install this tool on Windows 10, 8, 7, and other versions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free Demo Pack:- <\/strong>The utility comes with a free trial version that enables users to test its functionality before purchase. The free demo version enables users to combine the first 20 email items (also contacts) per mailbox without any cost.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Closing Statement:- <\/strong>I believe all the above-listed processes will become much helpful to merge and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mailsdaddy.com\/pst-merge-and-join\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remove duplicate contacts<\/a>. First, you can go with the free manual technique (after tacking backup of contacts). If you do not get the accurate result then go for MailsDaddy provided PST Merge and Join Tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one can ignore the best performance of MS Outlook for secure emailing in businesses and enterprises. It is one of the recommended email client by professionals because it has all the features and functionality that is needed. 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