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One of my biggest pet peeves, about all these different online services for managing contacts, is that I always seem to get three different copies of my friends into my contacts list. This is so frustrating because then I always have to look through, and try to delete them, and recombine them. And I say to myself, this should really be a lot easier. In fact, why isn’t the computer smart enough to do this for me. So we actually did invent something that we’re calling our contacts deduplicator, and I’ll show you a little bit how it can make your life easier.

Ellie Powers at computer

Let’s see. So I go into Options.

Windows Live screen – click options, more options

Aha. Clean up duplicate contacts. This is exactly what you want to do. So you click on that.

More options screen – click clean up duplicate contacts

And what it’s going to do is that it is going to go through all my different contacts, and figure out if some people actually are in there more than once, and clean it up for me, and then I only have one contact for each person.

Clean up duplicate contacts screen – click clean Up duplicate contacts

Okay, it says I don’t have any duplicate contacts. That’s good because I’ve already cleaned this up.

We didn’t find any duplicates in your contact list screen – click inbox