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September 30th, 2008, 03:33 PM
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Combine Contacts
Hello,
In August I imported an Access list of addresses into my Outlook 2007 contacts area where I already had my email address list. At the time I was able to combine contact records by selecting multiple records in Contacts and clicking either on a menu option or a button (I can't remember) which gave me the possibility of merging the selected records. I now have another list of contacts addresses that I have imported into Outlook, but I just can't find the option to merge contact records. For a while I thought that maybe I was dreaming that I had been able to merge contact records, but indeed, in the Notes section of some contacts there is the message: "Information from contacts you merged on 03/08/2008"! Can anyone help me to remember where this option is at all? I have tried the Outlook help files and google, but have not found an answer. Many thanks. 
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October 1st, 2008, 11:20 PM
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Given that Outlook has no such button or menu command, you must have been
using a third-party tool. See http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts.asp#dupes for possible solutions. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming: Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54 "Hingeless" wrote: Hello, In August I imported an Access list of addresses into my Outlook 2007 contacts area where I already had my email address list. At the time I was able to combine contact records by selecting multiple records in Contacts and clicking either on a menu option or a button (I can't remember) which gave me the possibility of merging the selected records. I now have another list of contacts addresses that I have imported into Outlook, but I just can't find the option to merge contact records. For a while I thought that maybe I was dreaming that I had been able to merge contact records, but indeed, in the Notes section of some contacts there is the message: "Information from contacts you merged on 03/08/2008"! Can anyone help me to remember where this option is at all? I have tried the Outlook help files and google, but have not found an answer. Many thanks.
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#3
October 2nd, 2008, 12:36 PM
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Hello Sue,
many thanks for your answer. I have no recollection of having downloaded extra, third-party software for Outlook except for Outlook Connector (which doesn't mean that I didn't download any others!). Is there a list anywhere, where I can see what third-party software is/has been integrated with Outlook? Many thanks! "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Given that Outlook has no such button or menu command, you must have been using a third-party tool. See http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts.asp#dupes for possible solutions. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming: Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54 "Hingeless" wrote: Hello, In August I imported an Access list of addresses into my Outlook 2007 contacts area where I already had my email address list. At the time I was able to combine contact records by selecting multiple records in Contacts and clicking either on a menu option or a button (I can't remember) which gave me the possibility of merging the selected records. I now have another list of contacts addresses that I have imported into Outlook, but I just can't find the option to merge contact records. For a while I thought that maybe I was dreaming that I had been able to merge contact records, but indeed, in the Notes section of some contacts there is the message: "Information from contacts you merged on 03/08/2008"! Can anyone help me to remember where this option is at all? I have tried the Outlook help files and google, but have not found an answer. Many thanks.
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#4
October 2nd, 2008, 12:39 PM
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-- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming: Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54 "Hingeless" wrote: Hello Sue, many thanks for your answer. I have no recollection of having downloaded extra, third-party software for Outlook except for Outlook Connector (which doesn't mean that I didn't download any others!). Is there a list anywhere, where I can see what third-party software is/has been integrated with Outlook? Many thanks! "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Given that Outlook has no such button or menu command, you must have been using a third-party tool. See http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts.asp#dupes for possible solutions. "Hingeless" wrote: Hello, In August I imported an Access list of addresses into my Outlook 2007 contacts area where I already had my email address list. At the time I was able to combine contact records by selecting multiple records in Contacts and clicking either on a menu option or a button (I can't remember) which gave me the possibility of merging the selected records. I now have another list of contacts addresses that I have imported into Outlook, but I just can't find the option to merge contact records. For a while I thought that maybe I was dreaming that I had been able to merge contact records, but indeed, in the Notes section of some contacts there is the message: "Information from contacts you merged on 03/08/2008"! Can anyone help me to remember where this option is at all? I have tried the Outlook help files and google, but have not found an answer. Many thanks.
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#5
October 19th, 2008, 08:56 PM
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Hello Sue,
Many thanks for all your help. It is greatly appreciated. I did in fact find what I had used before - it was in Windows Live Hotmail though! There is a "Merge" button there. And since I have Outlook Connector, the contacts from Outlook are sync-ed with the hotmail on Windows Live Hotmail - and that is how I managed to merge records in the Outlook Contacts. It's a bit fiddly from the point of view that I have both programs open, but since they sync regularly, it really works quite well. Once again, many thanks for all your help. Best wishes "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Tools | Trust Center | Add-ins -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming: Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54 "Hingeless" wrote: Hello Sue, many thanks for your answer. I have no recollection of having downloaded extra, third-party software for Outlook except for Outlook Connector (which doesn't mean that I didn't download any others!). Is there a list anywhere, where I can see what third-party software is/has been integrated with Outlook? Many thanks! "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Given that Outlook has no such button or menu command, you must have been using a third-party tool. See http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts.asp#dupes for possible solutions. "Hingeless" wrote: Hello, In August I imported an Access list of addresses into my Outlook 2007 contacts area where I already had my email address list. At the time I was able to combine contact records by selecting multiple records in Contacts and clicking either on a menu option or a button (I can't remember) which gave me the possibility of merging the selected records. I now have another list of contacts addresses that I have imported into Outlook, but I just can't find the option to merge contact records. For a while I thought that maybe I was dreaming that I had been able to merge contact records, but indeed, in the Notes section of some contacts there is the message: "Information from contacts you merged on 03/08/2008"! Can anyone help me to remember where this option is at all? I have tried the Outlook help files and google, but have not found an answer. Many thanks.
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