Duplicate contacts from Public Folders only

[Guest]

Hello all!

From time to time individuals update their personal contact list by copying
all the contacts from the public contact folder to their personal contact
list. In the past (before Outlook 2003), when Outlook saw duplicate names it
would warn and provide the choice to update/overwrite the existing contact
information. With Outlook 2003 it just makes duplicates of all the
addresses.

This only occurs when copying from the public folders, if copied from any
other contact list, duplicates are reported.

Any insight would be appreciated!

 

[Guest]

Since no one seems to know how to address this problem, can anyone recommend
a 3rd-party tool to remove duplucate contacts? There seems like a huge
variety of them out there, so any advice would be good.

I would prefer not to use some other tool to manage this problem, but since
Outlook can't seem to handle it, then there really isn't any other option.

Thanks