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Duplicate Remover Tools for Microsoft Outlook

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The following pages are a collection of mail utilities for Microsoft Outlook that don't fit any of the categories listed under More Information. There is a separate page for each type of utility and those who don't fit within the four main types of utilities are under Mail Tools for Outlook. If you are still using the older exchange clients or Windows Messaging, available tools are listed at Mail Tools for Exchange Client and Windows Messaging.

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This page lists duplicate remover tools. While some work on the mail folder only, many will work on any Outlook folder that contains duplicates.

While you can remove duplicates by hand, these tools make it easier when there are a lot of duplicates.

Manually Remove Duplicates | More Information

Tools

1-Click Duplicate Delete	1-click solution to remove duplicate mails, contacts or calendar items. Merges contacts automatically, has an undo function and a configurable advanced mode.
Anti-Dupe for Microsoft Outlook	Remove unwanted Outlook duplicate records with Anti-Dupe for Microsoft Outlook add-in utility. Anti-Dupe for Outlook scans and deletes duplicate Outlook duplicate appointments, contacts, emails and tasks based on pre-determined criterion set by Anti-Dupe. Trial version available.
Deduper for Outlook	Topalt Deduper is an easy to use tool for removing duplicated items in Microsoft Outlook. It can detect and remove (delete or move to another folder) duplicated appointments, contacts, e-mails, journals, notes and tasks.
Delete Duplicated Email	An Outlook COM add-in for deleting duplicated email messages from your folders.
Delete Duplicates for Outlook	Delete Duplicates for Outlook is a tool for deleting duplicate e-mails for Microsoft Outlook. Works with Outlook 2000/2002/2003/2007. Version 4.8
Duplicate E-mail Remover	Finds and removes duplicates, even if the messages appear in different folders.
Duplicate Email Delete	Search for and remove duplicated mail messages in Microsoft Outlook XP folders.
Duplicate Killer Merger	Duplicate Killer for Microsoft Outlook is a powerful plug-in for searching, managing and eliminating any type of duplicates (e-mails, contacts, tasks, calendar items (events, appointments, meetings), notes, journals) across all or chosen Outlook folders (including public folders). New Report Of Found Duplicates. The updated report with the list of found duplicates now provides more options to manage your duplicate items, and simplifies the process of resolving. Duplicate Merging dialog functionality has been dramatically improved, allowing you to quickly review and merge the fields you want. New properties to search added to Calendar and Contacts Wizard.
Duplicates Remover for Outlook	Delete duplicate contacts, notes, tasks, journal and calendar items in Microsoft Outlook folders and Exchange Server folders. Duplicates can be marked, copied or moved to any folder. It supports searching across the folders. Works with MS Outlook 2000/XP/2003 or later.
E-mail Duplicates Eliminator	Cleans up a single folder by either deleting duplicates or moving them to a separate folder. Duplicate Email Eliminator Across Folders is a version to find duplicates across multiple folders. Discount Code, enter during checkout: WD9BHK53
LBE Toolbox for MS Outlook	Multifunction utility to send individual messages to a list generated either from a text file or from criteria on the Contacts folder, remove large file attachments, remove duplicate contacts and messages, and perform a few other little chores.
OL LookForDuplicates	Find & remove duplicates with this open-source VBA-Script. Searches for duplicate entries of any type (calendar, contact, e-mail, notes, task, etc.) across folders in Outlook. Suspected duplicates are listed and can be moved to the Deleted Items folder.
Outlook Duplicate Items Remover	Free tool for removing duplicate items from Outlook folders. ODIR recognizes duplicates in Contacts; Calendar; Tasks; Notes and Email folders. Using ODIR is very easy: select a folder and click the button Remove Duplicate Items. ODIR scans the selected folder for duplicates and MOVES all duplicates found to a subfolder ODIR_duplicate_items. Version 1.2
Outlook Duplicates Remover	Removes duplicate items from Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Notes, and mail folders. Free.

Manually Remove Duplicates

To remove duplicates, follow these steps:

Select any table view using the View | Current View menu (in Outlook 2003: View | Arrange By | Current View). For email folders, all standard views use a table view. In the calendar, choose Events or By Category view. In Outlook 2003 and 2007, if you turn the reading pane off or drag it to the right to shrink it, the 2-line message list converts to a one-line list.

Right-click any column heading, then choose Field Chooser.
In the Field Chooser, switch from the Frequently-used fields list to Date/Time fields, and then drag the Modified date to the view to add it to the fields displayed.
Click on the Modified column header to sort by that field.
You should now see your Outlook items in reverse chronological order.
Click on the first item you want to delete.
Use the scroll bar to find the last item with the same modified date.
Hold down the Shift key as you click on the last one. This selects all the items between the two selections.
Press Delete to remove them all from the folder.
Drag the Modified column header out of the view to remove it.

This method works well with imported items or when you re-download messages left on the email server because you'll have one set of items with the same importe

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