
In just a few minutes, I watched the number of items in my inbox shrink from 4,081 to a more reasonable 2,656 (and counting). The free Outlook Duplicate Items Remover add-on makes finding and removing duplicate Outlook entries a breeze.

Select one of the folders and click the "Remove duplicate items" button at the bottom of the window. Click it and choose "Remove duplicate items" (or press Alt-O, R) to open the add-on's window showing your Outlook folders. The program places an "ODIR" entry on Outlook's standard toolbar. Rather than spending half a day manually removing the duplicates, I installed Vaita's free Outlook Duplicate Items Remover. And since I've combined my ISP's POP mail account with my Gmail account, the inbox-overflow problem has gotten out of hand.

Most of my inboxes have thousands of entries dating back years. Sometimes I wish I was one of those people who manages to keep their e-mail inbox empty by assigning the messages they need to keep appropriately named folders and deleting the mail they don't need.
