how to delete duplicate contacts in Windows live mail

Anonymous
2012-10-03T10:14:45+00:00

I have upgraded from Outlook express (in Win xp) to Windows live mail (in win 7 professional), while importing contact , i have done it 2 times, now i want to delete duplicate contacts in one shot. Not step by step , becoz i have 4000 contacts. I can eaisly do it by deleting all and then importing once again. but it has MSN contacts also, it says while deleting MSN contacts will delete. So I am worried, becoz first I need to take backup of MSN contacts. So I am looking for a simple process

Rajiv

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-07-19T07:21:15+00:00

    Thank you, now how can I disconnect from skype?

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-07-16T06:49:41+00:00

    Chang Paul's pictures illustrate the problem well. The second contact is from a different source and cannot be edited or removed.

    On the ribbon command bar, click View as > List. This displays your contacts as a table. You can right-click on column headings to add, change and remove columns. Arrange to see at least Name and From, then click on the From column heading to sort by that field. The entries will now be shown in groups, with your own contacts labelled Address book (Carnet d'adresses en français). Those that come from another service can only be removed by breaking the connection to that service, or by removing them within that service. Those that have no entry in the From field probably come from Skype.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-07-16T01:49:07+00:00

    Hi,

    I am having the same problem, as attached by Chang Paul (second last post)  

    Clean up contacts will not merge or remove duplicate contacts

    How do I solve this problem?

    Cheers

    Joe

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-06-12T03:03:59+00:00

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-06-11T19:05:22+00:00

    J'ai suivi votre correspondance depuis le début, car je suis moi même confronté à ce problème

    Les contacts de WLM apparaissent en double.

    Pour l'instant les solutions proposées, ne résolvent pas ce problème.

    Précision: Les contacts ne sont pas affichés de manière totalement similaire.

    Je joint 2 copies d'écran qui sont assez explicites, je crois.

    L'écran 2 n'est ni modifiable, ni EFFAÇABLE, et ça c'est gênant... 

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