900+ outlook contacts...want to sync only 250 of them, help!

if there is a magical way to sync only some of your outlook contacts (computer is a PC, if that matters), please help! i have over 900 outlook contacts but do not want most of them to appear in my iphone contact list. help! scrolling through so many contacts is dreadful.
thanks in advance...

Out of curiosity, have you tried doing it the other way around?
That is: editing contacts from iPhone and syncing to Outlook?
Outlook allows an export (well, Entourage does so I'd assume something similar in Outlook).
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