Step 4: Move back and merge your original contacts Select your main (currently empty) Contacts folder as the destination folder.Important! Select the option: Do not import duplicate items.Browse to the exported file which you created in Step 2 ( dedupe.csv).Select: Import from another program or file.Note: If you are using an account in Outlook 2013, please see the ”Special notice” section at the end of this article for alternative instructions. In this step, we’ll import the just exported csv-file to the emptied default Contacts folder. Step 3: Import your contacts from the csv-file Click Finish in the final screen of the Export wizard.In this example, we save the file to the Desktop and call it dedupe.csv Save the file to a convenient location.
Select your Dedupe folder created in Step 1.Select: Comma Separated Values (Windows).Start the “Import and Export” wizard of Outlook.Step 2: Export your contacts to a csv-file Move your Contacts from your Contacts folder to the Dedupe folder (CTRL+SHIFT+V).In this example, the folder is called: Dedupe Create a new Contacts folder by right clicking on your current Contacts folder and choosing “New Folder…”.Step 1: Move your contacts to a new Contacts folder The process below might seem long and complicated but it can actually be achieved within only a few minutes.
To do this, we use a little “Move, Export, Import and Move Back” trick. However, with some creativity, you can still quickly dedupe or merge your contacts. Outlook does hold some basic de-duplicate techniques but they usually only apply at the time that you try to create a contact which already exists.
Over the years I’ve created a lot of contacts and due to merging and synching of data during that time, I sadly also have quite some duplicates.ĭoes Outlook have an option to delete or merge these duplicate contacts?
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