How can I erase duplicate contacts on my iphone?

I have 100's so I can't do it one by one.

You can go to your phone contacts and go under the number you trying to erase and when you pull up there name by touch it hit the edit at the top of the phone on the right hand side,After you hit that go down to Delete contact it's going to be at the bottom of your phone.And that's it that's all you have to do.
Okay when you get home and you hook up your phone to your computer well you know your itunes going to open up and say that your phone have contacts on it thats not on your computer are something like that make sure you hit no to not sync cause it's going put it back on there after you do that the first time and you go back and sync your phone it's not going to ask you that.
Are you can go to the started menu at the bottom of your computer and type that person name in and hit deleted and when you sync your phone you don't have to worry about the duplicate of the contacts getting back on your phone after you sync your phone again,There so many different way people can do stuff it's what ever comfortable for you.

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