{"id":1689,"date":"2021-07-29T16:25:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T16:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filefix.org\/tips\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2021-07-29T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T16:26:00","slug":"clean-up-duplicate-contacts-from-outlook-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filefix.org\/tips\/clean-up-duplicate-contacts-from-outlook-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Up Duplicate Contacts From Outlook 2016 | Learn the Perfect Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is about resolving the problem of duplicate contacts in Outlook 2016. Because here we will cover how to find and clean up duplicate contacts from Outlook 2016. So, without further ado, let us uncover the successful ways.<\/p>\n

Basically, you will face the duplication of Outlook contacts when you are moving or importing contacts from other sources or someone else contacts list, then you might encounter Outlook duplicate contacts. Because during the import process of Outlook contacts it gives an option to create a new contact record or merge duplicate contacts and if this option is enabled, then you will definitely encounter this issue.<\/p>\n

Now, at a time you encounter this issue, you start facing storage issues, performance degradation issues, and sometimes application crash issues.<\/p>\n

Moreover, duplicate contacts also become problematic during searching for important contacts. Hence, it is very important to deduplicate Outlook contacts folder.<\/p>\n

And du top that many users want to clean up the duplicate contacts items from Outlook. But before going toward the cleaning process let\u2019s first check what are the reasons behind this issue.<\/p>\n

Reasons Behind Duplicate Contacts in Outlook 2016<\/h2>\n

As we said above during the import process if the \u201cAllow duplicates to be created\u201d option is enabled, then you will encounter duplicate contacts in Outlook. But this is not the only reason for duplicate contacts in Outlook some the major factors are illustrated below<\/p>\n