Neil Thanks for your reply and for the other times you have come to my aid. Errol -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Neil Atwood Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 7:39 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: double entries My guess as to the reason why it imported so many 'duplicates', is that they aren't strictly duplicates. It only takes one character to be different for Outlook to see them as different. If that's the case, I don't know of any other way other than manual weeding out... :-( Regards ____________________________________ Neil Atwood - Sydney, Australia -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Errol & Estelle Sapir Sent: Saturday, 6 December 2003 4:25 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] double entries I have many double addresses in my Office address book.i.e. the same address appears twice. I tried "to be clever" and exported the whole contact list as a "csv" file, deleting the original contact list and then re-importing the list with the "do not import duplicate" button filled in. This imported the address book back exactly the same way I exported it. Two questions: Why didn't it prevent the duplicate addresses from being re-imported? How DO I get rid of the MANY duplicate addresses I have in my contact list without having to do it manually? TIA Errol ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************* ############################################################################ ######### This Mail Was Scanned by 012.net Anti Virus Service - Powered by TrendMicro Interscan ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************