suggestions for comparing contacts in different folders

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Blaine

Hello,
I have a number of different contact folders in Exchange 5.5. Each folder
has about 3,000 contacts in them and many of the folders hold the same
contact info except for a change in an address, phone number or slight
misspelling of a name. I am trying to clean this info up and get it into one
public folder and I need suggestions for a tool or another way to compare
the data to determine which contact has the correct fields, etc.

I'm open for comments........
 
Hi Blaine,

Thank you for posting here!

I understand that you want to remove the duplicates of contacts. If I have
misunderstood, feel free to let me know.

First, I would like you to know that we cannot merge the information of the
two contact items to one item. However, we can perform the following steps
to move all the items in one contact folder to another contact folder:

1. Export the items of one contact folder to a .csv file

2. Import the .csv file to another subfolder of Outlook

Note: Choose the option "Do not import duplicate items" during import.

For additional information, please refer to the following Knowledge Base
Article:
290859 OL2002: How to Import and Export Text Data with Outlook
<http://support.microsoft.com/?id=290859>

I also found some third-party tools. You can refer to the following links
for more information:

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http://www.lbetoolbox.com/

http://www.hlyspirit.org.uk/cms/index.php?id=7

I hope this helps! If anything is unclear, feel free to let me know. Have a
nice day!


Thanks & Regards
Alan Sun
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Hi Alan,
Thanks for your post and allow me to clarify. I need to find a utility that
will allow me to compare duplicate contacts from different folders, choose
what fields contain correct data, and then merge the contact information
together. I am trying to stay away from exporting to excel, cleaning up the
data and importing because this extremely tedious and time consuming.

I was hoping someone could suggest a utility to accomplish this. I have done
a number of searches but haven't come up with a tool yet.
 
Hello Blaine,

Thanks for your update.

I am glad to know you have successfully found the tools you wanted.

If you have other concerns, feel free to let me know. It's my pleasure to
be of assistance.

Have a nice day!

Thanks & Regards
Alan Sun
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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