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
    2023-04-12T12:05:53+00:00

    Same problem here.

    I have 3,909 contacts that are messed up and to delete them will take me only three days versus the week that it will take the gentleman with 22,000.

    The lack of having a feature to DELETE ALL or DELETE ALL SELECTED is absolutely inconceivable.

    And the lack of the MS Admin here to provide a workaround since this issue was first raised more than two months ago... I'm 59 and haven't been this frustrated with something computer-related since I first sat down in front of one.

    Please please fix this, MS.

    I am so upset with MS.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-04-12T19:52:36+00:00

    This is what I'm facing, too. Terrible coding in Link to Windows results in about 600 contacts being over 20000 instead, with many duplicates all tagged with "(contacts synced by Link to Windows)". There should be an easy way to delete all of them, but nope. Just criminal. Microsoft should have to compensate all of us for the time it will take to recovery from this bug.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-04-12T20:33:04+00:00

    Easy fix if you can:

    Revert back to the old version of outlook and delete. It will sync to 0 in the new version and you can start over or upload what you want!

    I do not work for microsoft but this worked for me.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-04-12T20:52:48+00:00

    I'm not a usual Outlook person (usually Gmail on a Mac)... I got Outlook 365 with a GoDaddy domain/account. I can't revert to an older version of Outlook if I didn't start with that older version, can I?

    (I appreciate as a non MS staff that you took the time to weigh in.)

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-04-13T12:42:46+00:00

    I'm not sure but I can tell you that I did get a mac book pro with the new outlook installed and there is an option to revert to the legacy version. If you open up your outlook on a mac select the help section at the top of your screen and it will say revert to legacy. Here is a screen shot hope that helps.

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