Duplicates

[Dan Hales]

Is there a way to ask Entourage to find all duplicate entries in the
address book in order to review and delete them - much the way Now
Contact has an election to do this from one of their drop down menues
which reads something like, "Find Duplictes"

DBH

 

[Diane Ross]

Is there a way to ask Entourage to find all duplicate entries in the
address book in order to review and delete them - much the way Now
Contact has an election to do this from one of their drop down menues
which reads something like, "Find Duplictes"

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 view flagged only
(Command-Option-O) and delete contacts from the list.

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

 

[Dan Hales]

Thanks for the tip.

It would be helpful if Microsoft built in a "delete duplicate"
funciton in the new 2004 product under development for release this
spring.

 

[Diane Ross]

It would be helpful if Microsoft built in a "delete duplicate"
funciton in the new 2004 product under development for release this
spring.

One of the strengths of Entourage is it's strong support for applescripts.
This way it doesn't get so bloated.