Contacts keep duplicating

I am using office 2011 on my iMac .when I dock my iPad and iPhone 4 it doubles up on all my contacts on both .I then have t manually delete them then when I dock it does it again .it is doing my head in

Strange. To be honest, I quit linking mine together since it is too much work and all the work is gone to waste if you have to remove an email account and add it back for some reason. I just leave the duplicates or I delete the sim card contact that is created. I don't need any sim card contacts.
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