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I am pulling multiple Categories from Outlook Contacts into a MSWord mail
merge. How do I de-duplicate duplicate entries?
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Default How do I de-duplicate?

Create a catalog (or in Word XP and 2003, it's called Directory) type
mailmerge and then use the information in the
article "Finding and replacing characters using wildcards" at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...gWildcards.htm

To remove the duplicates. Then save and use that file as the datasource.

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I am pulling multiple Categories from Outlook Contacts into a MSWord mail
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