Deleting Duplicate Entries in Outlook

I love my Treo, but I don't sync it that often with my work computer. That's because it has a bad habit of duplicating my contacts and calendar entries on my computer, which is a real pain to fix. In the past, I have used add-ins from Sperry Software -- they have some a great Duplicate Appointments Eliminator and Duplicate Contacts Eliminator, which really do a great job of deleting the duplicate entries. But sometimes the add-ins don't play well with my work version of Outlook, so I usually wind up uninstalling it.

However, there is a way to do this for free, and I'm guessing it works on both Outlook 2003 and 2007. Just check out this tutorial from Tech Recipe on How to Delete Duplicated Contacts. This method gets you to add a "Date Created" column, and you can then delete all contacts created after a certain date (i.e., when you last did a sync). Warning: do this right after a sync, or you may wind up deleting non-duplicate contacts you subsequently add to Outlook.

I assume (but have not tried) that this method will work for your calendar items as well, as long as you are working with them in List view.

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