Outlook is a professional-grade messaging tool, right? So one might be able to imagine where with the thousands of contacts people accumulate, they might get into a situation where they enter a person’s data into two separate contacts. Now, one might think that there would be an option to merge two contacts into one (I mean, the Microsoft CRM has that feature, Plaxo has that feature, heck event the not “professional” OS X Address Book has that feature built in).
But no.
There are plugins that can help you eliminate duplicates contacts, but nothing that I can find built into Outlook 2007 natively. Oh, to dream…
My primary complaint with Outlook is that it does not support multiple identities for an account (whereas Thunderbird has this feature built in).
Here’s one plugin that would work http://www.teamscope.com/
I love this.
HmmMM.. You might try using Scrubly Duplicate Remover, Scrubly groups all compatible duplicate contacts together to be safely merged. Compatible duplicates are contacts that have nearly identical key fields such as first name, last name and email address, yet contain other information that can be safely merged with other matching contacts. Once flagged as a potential merge, you have the opportunity to review one or all of these contact groups before processing. Or, simply merge all of your compatible duplicates with one click.