I am unable to delete contact: Make the Delete button in Contacts actually do something. I want to delete old contacts but can't
It would seem a good idea if the Delete button inthe contacts list actually allowed you to delete contacts that are no longer required.
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Anonymous commented
I have some old contacts that I cannot delete
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Tony BlackShear
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can't edit an email address in PEOPLE (contacts). Also very hard to delete old email address (friends change these occasionally and the old one need to be changed/deleted)
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Anonymous
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Agree, need to
1. be able to delete more than 50 contacts at a time
2. be able to completely change an email address and not have the old one still in the file -
Robert Page
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If a contact changes their email address, the old one keeps reappearing resulting in my not knowing which is new and which is old. This is ridiculous and extremely annoying. I've just, yet again, sent an email which was not delivered because the address no longer exists. When will Outlook understand the basics - when I delete an email address in my contacts list I want it gone - for ever!!
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kfhanson
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Can't delete old email address for a contact
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Anonymous
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I am unable to delete secondary email address from a contact without deleting the ENTIRE contact
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Anonymous
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Have selected a contact but cannot find any option anywhere to delete it
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Edinburgh Music Theatre
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I previously learnt due to complaints that deleting a contact doesn't delete them from the contact lists they're in, and an unsubscriber kept getting mails until I worked it out. At least then I could click on a contact, see what lists they were in, untick them from those lists, and then delete the contact. Now MS have removed even this function meaning I have to search every one of 20 contact lists to see if the contact exists there, edit each affected list, and only then can I delete the contact.
HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO COMPLY WITH GDPR SAFELY WHEN THE FUNCTIONALITY IS THIS POOR???!!! -
Patricia Humphrey
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that was not the question!!!! the question was how do i delete address i do not want!
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Anonymous
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delete contact. No delete icon is shown nor delete option
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Norman Pavan
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How do I delete no longer needed names from my contact list.
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Anonymous
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help does nothing. I need to know how to delete a contact
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Anonymous
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Contacts on outlook email - when you edit details for a contact, the original email address for a person does not delete and still shows on the long list of all contacts. Please resolve.
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Anonymous
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the way the editing is done for contacts, it doesn't allow you to easily delete an old email address and add a new one.. it adds a new one but does not let you delete old one.. to delete old one yo uhave to delete contact and that means deleting all the other contact info.
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robert simms
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Why do you make it impossibly difficult to delete a contacts old address after editing it for update.????????????
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Anonymous
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i want clear all the contact but always say cant remove. What happen? help me to solve this problem
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Anonymous
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After several tries to sync my contacts to new Android device (Samsung S8), I have several contacts duplicated (like 16K). There is no easy way to remove those duplicates. Buildin feature has limitation of 50 entries to be removed or linked. It is time consuming to remove 16k duplicates this way.
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Anonymous
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How do I delete contacts?
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Anonymous
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i want to delete contacts in my outlook account for two days and can not i get a notice something went wrong. please amend
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Anonymous
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why can't I update an email contact. Can't get rid of the old.
