Cannot delete a contact in Outlook

Anonymous
2023-09-11T06:25:43+00:00

I have a standard bversion of outlook, which I use for hotmail, and am in Windows 10.

There is one email address that I want to remove or at least edit, but although it states it is a contact, it isn't in my contact list and I cannot edit or delete it. I only find it in people when I do a search.

I found the Contact in Google Contacts and permanently deleted it but it keeps popping back up. Any suggestions?

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-04-26T13:23:14+00:00

    Howdy,

    After losing most of my hair, I think I have finally figured this out. There are TWO types of contacts in outlook.

    1. Contacts: these are the ones that you have personally added
    2. Xontacts: (that is my name) These are "contacts" that are "added" when you either received or send email to an address that is not in your Contacts. In the olden days, I used to call "inventions" such as these, "Gatisms" after Bill Gates.

    All the talk about maintaining contacts has been about Contacts. Unfortunately, anything you do with a Xontact will have varying, almost unpredictable, results.

    I have discovered though, that if I take a Xontact and add it to my Contacts, I can actually delete it. It is a painful process, but it has enabled me to eliminate "suggested contacts" which are related to, but not necessariy the same as Xontacts. I was then able to cleanse my contact list.

    Can you go in abit more details how you exactly did that? Because I have some Xontacts I would love to get rid off on my outlook when I use the search function on it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-20T20:47:09+00:00

    Howdy,

    After losing most of my hair, I think I have finally figured this out. There are TWO types of contacts in outlook.

    1. Contacts: these are the ones that you have personally added
    2. Xontacts: (that is my name) These are "contacts" that are "added" when you either received or send email to an address that is not in your Contacts. In the olden days, I used to call "inventions" such as these, "Gatisms" after Bill Gates.

    All the talk about maintaining contacts has been about Contacts. Unfortunately, anything you do with a Xontact will have varying, almost unpredictable, results.

    I have discovered though, that if I take a Xontact and add it to my Contacts, I can actually delete it. It is a painful process, but it has enabled me to eliminate "suggested contacts" which are related to, but not necessariy the same as Xontacts. I was then able to cleanse my contact list.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-11T21:23:01+00:00

    same here

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-01T00:43:44+00:00

    Same with mine.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-01-23T11:47:29+00:00

    The delete button is greyed out for contacts. Outlook REALLY does not want us to delete contacts

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