how to delete blank contact blocks

[Guest]

Somehow I managed to add about a gazillion blank contacts into my contact
folder. Now I have to scroll all the way to the end every time I open my
contacts folder. The contact header [123] says blank-blank. How do I get
rid of these blanks?? Outlook 2000 and XP.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Why can't you delete them?

 

[Judy Gleeson]

Try changing your view from Address cards to Phone List and you'll be able
to manipulate your data more. Use the Group By Box and Field chooser and
you'll find Contacts much more powerful.

Judy Gleeson
Acorn Training and Consulting
"we're nuts about Outlook"

see what Outlook training can do to improve productivity:
www.acorntraining.com.au/pdfdocs/ProductivITwithOutlook.pps

highlight the first one hold down the left shift key, tap the right arrow
key until you come to the first contact you want to keep, hit the delete
key.


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Barry
Sunny Ocala, FL
http://home.att.net/~b.lockyer/index.htm

Somehow I managed to add about a gazillion blank contacts into my contact
folder. Now I have to scroll all the way to the end every time I open my
contacts folder. The contact header [123] says blank-blank. How do I
get
rid of these blanks?? Outlook 2000 and XP.

 

[limeybiker]

highlight the first one hold down the left shift key, tap the right arrow
key until you come to the first contact you want to keep, hit the delete
key.

 

[Guest]

That did the trick. I tried the shift, scroll, delete like the previous
poster suggested but I could tell this would have taken me about a 1000
scrolls. Changing to the phone list let me delete like in Excel. Even at
that it took about 10 seconds to remove all the blanks. Thanks a lot!!

Try changing your view from Address cards to Phone List and you'll be able
to manipulate your data more. Use the Group By Box and Field chooser and
you'll find Contacts much more powerful.

Judy Gleeson
Acorn Training and Consulting
"we're nuts about Outlook"

see what Outlook training can do to improve productivity:
www.acorntraining.com.au/pdfdocs/ProductivITwithOutlook.pps

highlight the first one hold down the left shift key, tap the right arrow
key until you come to the first contact you want to keep, hit the delete
key.


--
Ride safe
Barry
Sunny Ocala, FL
http://home.att.net/~b.lockyer/index.htm

Somehow I managed to add about a gazillion blank contacts into my contact
folder. Now I have to scroll all the way to the end every time I open my
contacts folder. The contact header [123] says blank-blank. How do I
get
rid of these blanks?? Outlook 2000 and XP.