How do I erase all of my contacts at once?

I just got my phone, which I LOVE. But when I did the initial sync, I had it sync with Outlook only to realize that it would be pulling all my work contacts in to my contacts on my phone. This is a personal phone and I don't need or want all the work contacts in there. Is there a way to delete all of them out at once and go back and enter the one's I need manually?

Go into your contacts in Outlook where you sync your phone and delete the ones you don't want and then resync. If you need your contacts in Outlook, but don't want them on your iphone, you will want to uncheck the sync with Outlook contacts and then delete them manually on your phone. One at a time. Sounds like you synced your work outlook along with your personal outlook at home? It's easier to go into outlook and delete them and then resync and then uncheck the sync to contacts on your work computer.

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