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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / March 2006How do I quickly delete over 50,000 blank entries from Contacts?
I accidentally imported an entire Excel spreadsheet, including about 65,000 blank entries into my Contacts database. Is there a quick way to remove them? I don't have enough memory to just highlight them and delete them all at once, so I am just doing it about 100 at a time and it is slow going. do you have enough memory to use a group by view and delete the group? Assuming you can find a field to group by that removes the good contacts from the group....  SignatureDiane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter: EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM >I accidentally imported an entire Excel spreadsheet, including about 65,000 > blank entries into my Contacts database. Is there a quick way to remove > them? > I don't have enough memory to just highlight them and delete them all at > once, so I am just doing it about 100 at a time and it is slow going. Could you temporarily increase your virtual memory? Remember to change the memory back afterwards. You would probably need to reboot for each change. Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Virtual Memory Use the suggestion from Diane Poremsky if you can. It would be much faster than this one. > I accidentally imported an entire Excel spreadsheet, including about 65,000 > blank entries into my Contacts database. Is there a quick way to remove them? > I don't have enough memory to just highlight them and delete them all at > once, so I am just doing it about 100 at a time and it is slow going. |
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