how to delete more than 10 contacts in outlook 365, how to delete more than 50 contacts in outlook 365

Anonymous
2023-02-03T18:24:46+00:00

This is conceivable. I've been using Apple and iCloud for the last 15 years. For some time I wanted to check how to work on WIN 11. For mail and contacts, I chose Outlook in 365.

Something bad happened in the contact database and I had to delete them all to upload new ones. I had almost 3000 of them and now attention:

To do this, you need to delete them with 10 pcs. !

Then, to delete them from the deleted folder, you need to delete with 50 pcs.

It is unlikely that it lacks such basic features that have been present for a long time in google and iCloud.

Can anyone answer the question why this is so?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-16T22:31:39+00:00

    soapbox .... spelled with small caps ....

    I'm Totally Dismayed .. Microsoft cannot answer a simple question ... over with over a year of people asking the same question without any clue as to when a solution will be available ... actually, there has not been ONE response from an expert that even sounds like they understand the question ... its like the developers don't know what they did and neither does anyone else .. Not even sure anyone from Microsoft has looked at the New Outlook not to mention the Classic Outlook product .. maybe it was developed by a Google Docs Engineer somewhere on the Moon... Hello This is Earth Calling....

    The trick to delete contacts when switching back to Outlook Classic only works on that database file. When going back to New Outlook, a different contacts database is at play. Classic and New are totally different and do not interact. Do not be fooled by the fact emails seems or appear to track... Not convinced its true yet ... there are some quarky things happening with email... Not to mention Calendar ...

    I'm totally frustrated and now that I switched and left Gmail ... Microsoft has totally scaled back any productivity I thought I would gain ... what a sales pitch I bought into hook line & sinker ....

    And if this is a confusing issue ... don't even attempt to ask this same question using CoPilot ...

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-06-09T14:50:50+00:00

    I mean this is horrible and takes me a lot of time to fix.

    How can it be possible to set any stupid restriction like such, that it's totally useless in handle massive contact, let alone the missing feature of finding/merging duplicated contacts.

    The very basic function for any contact management.... To do batch delete and find duplicated is essential to any import and export of contact. It's also horrible in synchornize over multiple device, all the shared contacts cannot be found over phone or website, only visible in outlook desktop. Major frustration and how can this very basic problem still exist in year 2023???????

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-16T15:13:34+00:00

    This doesn't have anything to do with the problem we are having, but thanks for trying to answer.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-12T15:10:55+00:00

    I'm having to deal with this also. MS, please add this functionality!

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-03-17T20:10:55+00:00

    I had the same problem. I'm on a mac book pro revert your outlook back to Legacy. Select the help section of your browser. Once that is done go to contacts and hold shift+A then delete. Then revert back to the new version. It worked for me! I tried to add a screenshot but it will not upload.

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