dollar_sign Address Book Tidy-Up
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This is a useful programme for ensuring that your Eclipse Address Book doesn't get cluttered with duplicate companies and people that have been entered with slightly different names by users who have the permissions to add Address Book entries on the fly. This can particularly cause problems if you have the same customer entered many times and two of those entries have their "account on hold". It can also distort any customer specific reports you may have.

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The Address Book Tidy-up utility allows you to filter / search for entries in the Address Book based on chunks of text you enter. In this respect it works just like the search facility in the Popstock window. You hit the space bar to active the search or click the Search... button. Once you have a list you can assign the master or "real" company or person, mark the duplicate companies or people (use Shift + Click to multi-select) , and then move over all the Jobs, Invoices, Crewing, etc that you have ever created against the duplicate companies or people to the master. The duplicates can then be marked as "deleted" or permanently deleted.

There is also a facility to clear all blank companies or people in the database, i.e. entries with no name.