I've imported from several databases into entourage, but now have
duplicates. I need to delete the non-recent ones. Is there a way to do
this without manually going in a deleting each one?

Re: deleting duplicates in address book by Diane

Diane
Tue Dec 30 16:13:57 CST 2003

On 12/30/03 8:34 AM, in article 0b3601c3cef2$c9dac0f0$a401280a@phx.gbl,
"Shane" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I've imported from several databases into entourage, but now have
> duplicates. I need to delete the non-recent ones. Is there a way to do
> this without manually going in a deleting each one?

There is a script that will delete duplicate contacts.

Duplicate Contacts 1.0 
Author: Allen Watson  

Locate, report, and (optionally) flag all duplicate contacts in the Address
Book.

http://files.macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/Entourage/Duplicate_Contacts.sit

The idea is that you flag the duplicates, then sort by the "flag" column and
delete the ones you want deleted.

You may also want the "Merge Contacts" script that will merge fields from
two almost identical contacts.



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Diane Ross
Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>