Reader Question: How do I remove my contacts folder?

A reader recently upgraded Office 2010 to Office 365 and now they have two different Contacts folders. How can they get rid of one, they wonder.

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October 2, 2015

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Reader Question: How do I remove my contacts folder?

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Poster said76 asks:

I have recently upgraded my windows 7 64 bit to windows 10 with success. And also, I upgraded my office 2010 to office 365 with success as well. As I was installing office 365, I still had my office 2010 installed (which is fine). The reason I was doing this because I was afraid of losing my outlook accounts, contacts and calendar. But everything all went really good. Then, I uninstalled my office 2010.

Now I just found out that there are a few contacts showing in my Outlook's people:

  • Contacts (for this computer only)

  • Contacts

  • Suggested contacts

I think by default, the new Outlook (Outlook 2013) uses "Contacts (for this computer only)" folder. so I copied across all my contacts from "Contacts" to "Contacts (for this computer only)" with success.

My question is I wonder how to remove "Contacts" folder from the list (I mean the entire "Contacts" folder). Is this feasible?

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