Run Inbox Clean Up
MS Outlook integrates several utilities and add-ins that help clean duplicate emails in MS Outlookeffectively. One such built-in utility is Clean Up that can be executed manually from within the application. To run Clean Up for removing duplicated inbox email messages, follow the steps below:
- Open MS Outlook 2016
- Select the Inbox folder that contains duplicated emails
- Go to Home menu and click on the Clean Up option available on the ribbon. Next, select any one option as per the reason for the occurrence of duplicate items:
- Select Clean Up Conversation from the drop down options that appear. This will delete and move duplicate email messages existing in the conversation to Deleted Items folder
- Clean Up Folder option will allow you to delete duplicate email messages from a particular folder
- Clean Up Folder and Subfolders will clean up folders as well as subfolders
- Next, right-click the Deleted Items folder and select the Empty folder option to delete the duplicate email messages permanently