How do I rid my Iphone of duplicate contacts

I synced my Iphone with Outlook. Previously I was syncing with my Yahoo.com account. Now I have many duplicates and there is no way I can find to delete them from the Iphone. Is there any way to manage the Iphone contacts from ITunes? How do I fix all my contact info? Yahoo, Outlook and Iphone should all be the same info. Help please? Mike

Duplicate contacts is usually caused by user error due to syncing between iTunes and iCloud simultaneously.  Turn off sync between either iCloud or iTunes and the duplicates should be removed.

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