Combine Contacts

[Hingeless]

Hello,
In August I imported an Access list of addresses into my Outlook 2007
contacts area where I already had my email address list.
At the time I was able to combine contact records by selecting multiple
records in Contacts and clicking either on a menu option or a button (I can't
remember) which gave me the possibility of merging the selected records.

I now have another list of contacts addresses that I have imported into
Outlook, but I just can't find the option to merge contact records.
For a while I thought that maybe I was dreaming that I had been able to
merge contact records, but indeed, in the Notes section of some contacts
there is the message: "Information from contacts you merged on 03/08/2008"!

Can anyone help me to remember where this option is at all? I have tried the
Outlook help files and google, but have not found an answer.

Many thanks.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Given that Outlook has no such button or menu command, you must have been
using a third-party tool. See
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts.asp#dupes for possible solutions.

 

[Hingeless]

Hello Sue,
many thanks for your answer.
I have no recollection of having downloaded extra, third-party software for
Outlook except for Outlook Connector (which doesn't mean that I didn't
download any others!).
Is there a list anywhere, where I can see what third-party software is/has
been integrated with Outlook?
Many thanks!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

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Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[Hingeless]

Hello Sue,
Many thanks for all your help.
It is greatly appreciated.

I did in fact find what I had used before - it was in Windows Live Hotmail
though!
There is a "Merge" button there.
And since I have Outlook Connector, the contacts from Outlook are sync-ed
with the hotmail on Windows Live Hotmail - and that is how I managed to merge
records in the Outlook Contacts.
It's a bit fiddly from the point of view that I have both programs open, but
since they sync regularly, it really works quite well.

Once again, many thanks for all your help.
Best wishes