Merging Items

With Duplicate Killer, you can manually or automatically merge two or more items* into a single item. The process of items merging process allows you to compare and select preferred fields from every selected item or from every item of the group of found duplicates, and make a single item containing those selected fields.

To open the Merge dialog, click the "Compare/Merge..." button in the Duplicate Killer Report form.

In the Merge grid each item/duplicate occupies one column. To keep an item, click on its name. You can compare and highlight in green the required fields.

Using right click menu on a selected field you may Edit the property value, Copy a value of the property and Paste it. The modified values are marked in red.

The following actions can be performed with the buttons in the Merge dialog:

• The Merge button starts merging of item fields selected by the user.
• After the merging process is complete the Merge Process Result form will appear.
• The Merge all automatically button starts automatic merging. This button is visible only during duplicates processing.
• The Skip button skips (stops) merging for a current group of items (or duplicates).
• The Cancel button closes the merging dialog.
• The Help button opens the Duplicate Killer Help.

To merge manually two or more items*, open an Outlook folder (of mail, contacts or tasks type) and choose items to merge. Then select the "Merge..." command from the Duplicate Killer toolbar menu or from the Actions menu. The "Merge" dialog will appear (see above).

After manual merging the dialog will appear with the confirmation of duplicate deletion.