got software to load my contacts & calendar onto my razor.

but, if i have a buddy's email,
then i load my phone, then my wifes,

it now has the same person 3 times.

if i go into my contacts folder
so how do i click all 3 entries, and merge them into one?

 

You will probably have to delete the ones you don't want. I don't think many phones have the "merge" capability.

 

I had to do that once in Outlook. Couldn't figure out how to merge them...

 

no, i want to do it in outlook.

then delete both phones contents,

then reload both

so you had to manually edit them?

it's a whole lot of names in there.
244 by last count.

and i have found out, it's a LOT easier to have a name in your phone, than to really NEED a phone number.

especially carting the youth group all over God's creation with all thier maladies, ailments, and OCD's....

 

It's a pretty well known problem, because someone is selling a fix for it, $10:
http://www.rsoutlook.com/us/prods/prod11.html


http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...985411033.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...985411033.aspx

Removing the unwanted duplicate contacts is a manual process, but the following is the easiest way to do it:

In Contacts, select the contacts folder that has duplicate contacts.
In the Navigation Pane (Navigation Pane: The column on the left side of the Outlook window that includes panes such as Shortcuts or Mail and the shortcuts or folders within each pane. Click a folder to show the items in the folder.), under Current View, click Phone List. This is the best view to scan your contacts list and see the duplicate contacts. Now you can sort the list by modified date and group the duplicates together.
On the View menu, point to Current View, and then click Customize Current View.
Click Fields, select Modified in the Available fields list, and then click Add.
Click Move Up until Modified is at the top of the Show these fields in this order list.
Click OK twice.
In the list of contacts, hold down CTRL while you select each duplicate contact.
When you have selected all the duplicate contacts, press DELETE.



Well, the below will NOT work..that's just a way to add NEW contacts.
you can turn off "duplicate detection" but there's no way to make it go look for existing Dupe's

since these already exist, i will have to search some more.

MS Help page

If you save a contact (contact: Person, inside or outside of your organization, about whom you can save several types of information, such as street and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and Web page URLs.) with the same name or e-mail name as one that already exists in your Contacts folder, Microsoft Outlook will display a dialog box that allows you to either add the new contact or update your existing contact with the new information from the new contact.

Add this as a new contact

The new contact will be added to your Contacts folder. So, for example, if you made a contact with the name Judy Lew, and you already had a contact with that name, you would have two contacts named Judy Lew. To distinguish between the two you might want to add a middle initial to one.

Update new information from this contact to the existing one

Outlook will compare all the fields with data in them and copy the data from the new contact into any fields that have conflicting data. For example, if you have a contact named Judy Lew with the phone number 555-0112, and you get a contact with a new phone number, Outlook will copy the new number into the old contact and leave all the other fields the same.

Any categories you’ve assigned, and any text in the message box from the new contact, will not be copied into the existing contact. If you want to copy these fields from a new contact into an existing contact, you will have to copy them manually. Certificates (certificate: A digital means of proving your identity. When you send a digitally signed message you are sending your certificate and public key. Certificates are issued by a certification authority, and like a driver's license, can expire or be revoked.) and links to contacts on the Activities tab will be copied from the new contact and added to the existing contact without replacing the original information. Links on the Activities tab to items other than contacts, such as to tasks and appointments, will not be copied.

In case you need to revert to the information in the original contact, a copy of the original contact is stored in your Deleted Items folder whenever Outlook copies new data.

Note If you are saving many contacts to Outlook, Outlook can save the information faster if you do not use duplicate detection. To turn this feature off, do the following:

On the Tools menu, click Options.
Click Contact Options, and then clear the Check for duplicate contacts check box.