On 6/20/05 2:39 PM, "Norman W. Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It might be hard to determine just what is duplication. >> Is a Work mail > and a Home mail that are the same duplication? > > If what you >> want is absolute removal of all dupe e-mail addresses or > phone numbers for a >> given contact (and the formatting of the phone > numbers might be a problem >> here, but not insurmountable), it is > do-able, but nobody has bothered to do it >> yet. I'm not particular keen > on doing it... > > Might it be better then to use Paul's Export scripts to text/spreadsheet > format; clean it all up, then re-import? > > Paul, would this preserve links, etc when re-imported? It preserves etc. (categories) but not links. Links are via ID and the IDs are gone when you delete and re-import. In fact they can't even be recreated by linking to contacts of the same name since the contact link might not even exist yet (not have been re-imported yet) when the contact itself is recreated. I can't see that doing it in Excel or a tab-text file is going to be any quicker than in Entourage itself unless you're doing a find-and-replace of a particular email domain, say, for 50 people which has changed for all of them to a new domain. That does happen, and then the Excel or text method would work well. I don't see that searching for duplicate email addresses or phone numbers is going to be any quicker. -- Paul Berkowitz MVP MacOffice Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using - **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
