Author of the article has expertise in the field of data recovery software, email recovery, email migration, hard drive recovery and data recovery. He enjoys writing innovative and technology-based articles on various topics related to ,Repair MDB , Access Repair, Access Recovery ,etc. The occurrence of duplicate items in MS Outlook is quite common. Often Duplicate email items in MS Outlook occur due to restoration of Public folders from backups, synchronization with PC PDAs, BlackBerry, incorrect Outlook rules and other such situations. When you important items from MS Office Outlook and add the contact as a duplicate or if the duplicate detection option is turned off, then there is no option to remove duplicate items after you perform the import. Over here, we are going to discuss the method using which you can delete duplicate items after performing the comprehensive import process.
Delete Outlook Duplicate Items from Outlook 2002, Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007
In MS Outlook 2007 as well as MS Outlook 2002, go to View menu and point to Current View. Now click the change the folder view to table type view. In MS Outlook 2003, point to Arrange By option in the View Menu, Point to Current View and select to change the folder view to a table type View. For example, use the following view and field combinations:
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View
Field
Calendar
Active Appointments
Contacts
Phone List
Inbox
Messages
Journal
Entry List
Notes
Notes List
Right-click the column heading and select the Field Chooser
Right from the list at the top of the Field Choose, click to select the All <name of the item> fields
Drag the Modified field to the table heading
Now confirm that the duplicate items have a unique date from the original set of items. If the date is unique, select the Modified heading so that the items are sorted by this field.
Select the first item in the set that you wish to delete, go down to the last item in the set that you wanted to delete and then click the last item while you hold down the SHIFT key
Press DELETE key to permanently delete all selected items
Delete Outlook Duplicate Items from Outlook 2010
In order to delete Outlook duplicate items from MS Outlook 2010, follow the instructions given below:
Select the folder for which you wish to delete duplicate items
Click the View tab in the Ribbon, click Change View in the Ribbon and then select to change the folder view to a table type view. For example, click the List icon
Right-click the column heading and select Field Chooser
From the list located at the top of Field Chooser, select the All <name of the item> field
Drag the Modified Field to the table heading
Now confirm that the duplicate items have a unique date from the original set of items. If the date is unique, select the Modified heading so that the items are sorted by this field.
Select the first item in the set that you wish to delete, go down to the last item in the set that you wanted to delete and then click the last item while you hold down the SHIFT key
Now press DELETE key on the keyboard to permanently delete all selected items
This way you can delete Outlook duplicate files and manage the space in your Outlook Express email client. However, you can always switch to professional delete outlook duplicate software to get rid of such issues.