Remove duplicated contacts

[Guest]

Hi all,

Is it possible to write some VBA code to remove duplicated entries in
contacts? I have a user who uses the contacts extensively and always syn with
his PDA, but sometimes when syn PDA it created a whole new set of contacts
which, make his contacts size bigger and bigger, now there are 3 to 4 copies
of some of the contacts. The version of Outlook is 2003 running on WinXP.
Thanks in advance

 

[Guest]

This is definitely possible with VBA, but the more information you need to
compare to determine whether two items are duplicates or not, the more
complicated this gets.

Here is some sample code that works for e-mails that you can study as the
basis for your code:

To remove duplicate messages from the Microsoft Outlook Inbox:
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/movemaildupes.htm

Otherwise, there are several tools that can help you:

Contact Tools for Microsoft Outlook:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts.htm#dupes