Outlook 2013 Is Having Problem in Removing Duplicate Contacts

Hello rnI have two different email account one is on Gmail and other is on Yahoo. Few days earlier I tried to merge both my Yahoo and gmail contacts in my Outlook 2013 address book. The main problem start arising while I manually added all contacts in both account. When I tried to do so I selected merge duplicate something outlook hanged n so I choose "Allow duplicate" for both accounts' contacts. Now, I want to merge all of them and remove duplicate entries. rnThanksrn

Thanks DexternI tried to do that and thanks for the help. Due to it I am resolved with my PST files issues and the hanging issues of Outlook is also solved. But can you please guide me further so that my Duplicate Contacts that was earlier created can be resolved. Because for that I have to start from the beginning and that will take too long. Is there any method to do it in easy way?

Hi MichaelnThe Solution provided by Dexter is good and will resolve your Outlook issues. But if you simply want to Resolve your duplicate contacts issues you can opt. for Merge options. This can simply Merge and will hide the Duplicate Entries in your Address book nSteps for merging Duplicate Contacts in Outlook: nn1. Open Outlook 2013. nn2. Click on people from the navigation pane at the bottom. nn3. choose the person with whom you wish to link another contact. nn4. click on the 3 dots right next to the edit option and choose Link Contact. nn5. Search Name of the person to be merge set in link another Contacts and click on that. It'll merge the contacts right and can show each the names beneath connected Contacts heading. nn6. To create certain the contacts merged, Select name which was chosen earlier and see if it shows the merged data. nn7. That’s it. This makes it lots easier to induce your messages to individuals simply without having recollecting every of their addresses.

Hello EddiennThanks for your support. Really appreciate your efforts. But there are almost around 3500 contacts stored in my Address book. So is there any easy way to do that. Because it's becoming very much time consuming. so can you guide some easy solution so that I can get through it.

Hello MichaelnTo delete duplicate contacts: n1. Click People. n2. On the Home tab, in the Current View group, click the bottom right corner of the views box, and then click Phone. This is the best view to scan your contacts list and see the duplicates. n3. Current View group on the Home tabn4. In your list of contacts, hold down Ctrl and click each contact you want to delete. n5. Hold down CTRL and click each contact you want to deleten6. When you've selected all the duplicates, press Delete or Ctrl+D.

Hello Dexter nYes I appreciate your method. Both our ways can work out. If Michael wants to choose for Merging the contacts he can adopt my technique and If he wants to delete the duplicate contact he can go for your technique.

Hello Dexter and EddienThanks a lot for helping me out. I really appreciate both of yours efforts. nIt's working out. But Everyday I have to give 2 hrs to my contacts. nSo that I can get it resolved because there are almost 3500 of it.

Hello All, nThanks for posting your query to sysc. org for providing us opportunity to solve this out. Yes there is a technique to solve this out. nYou can take help from a 3rd party software. ni. e a third-party tool Outlook Duplicates Remover for getting your contacts resolved. nIt can do deduplication of emails, contacts, calendars, journals, tasks, notes. nOption to remove duplicates within the folder and across the folder. nRemove duplicates emails from multiple Outlook PST files in batch. n

Yes Michael Scofield you can opt. for this software. It's trusted and verified. I have also used product of the a third-party tool. It always resolve my issues whenever I stuck with the problem.