It is commonly seen that the MS Outlook email account always filled with emails, notes, drafts, contacts and other elements. As far as the corporate and business sectors are concerned, one cannot stop the email account from getting flooded by the emails as numerous email messages are being dealt every day. It is quite normal to get duplicate emails if you use Outlook regularly. You may often feel disturbing when you see that your email account has bombarded with duplicate entries again and again. Generally duplicate items may be the consequence of actions taken outside of your normal day-to-day operations. When we import data into PST file it creates duplicate entries in email account of Outlook.

The repeated occurrence of duplicate email entries may slow down the performance of MS Outlook which may further lead to affect the entire communication. Moreover, it has also been observed that when a user performs various kinds of operations like reading, deleting or jumping from one folder to another may result in malfunctioning of the email application. If the email application functions unusually then the occurrence of duplicate entries may be possible. Again, duplicate items occupy extra space causing bigger storage issues in Outlook. It increases the workload and limits the capacity of email client. Another possible reason for duplicate items may be small email server bandwidth, compression, or the enlargement of emails. It is recommended to maintain sufficient bandwidth and the server must be updated regularly so that no such issue can come forward.

Following steps are proposed to overcome the problem of duplicate emails in Outlook email account. This procedure helps the users to remove duplicate contacts and other items from Outlook.

1. Point to the current view on view menu of Outlook 2007 and 2002, then click to change folder view to table type view.

2. Right click to the column heading and choose field chooser.

3. Now modified heading can be dragged to the table heading.

4. Verify that duplicate items have a unique data from original set of items. Now, if it is unique click modified heading so that items can be sorted.

5. Select first item in the set to delete and scroll to last item in set that has to be deleted, click last item by holding SHIFT key.

6. Now press delete permanently and delete entire selected items.

The above procedure depicts the manual method for duplicate removal from Outlook email account. If this method goes in vain, then you need to take the help of Outlook duplicate remover which will eliminate all the duplicate entries including emails, contacts and other elements. Such third party tools are effective in searching duplicate entries in detail from the selected folders. Once the tool identifies the duplicate entries it flags it and removes or moves it to the sub folder. There are several such third party Kernel for outlook duplicate software tools which will help in removing all duplicate emails, contacts and other items from Outlook and will clean all repeated messages in no time.