Syncing Contacts between iPhone 4 & Outlook

iPhone 4. iOS 6.1.3
I have two Contact Groups on my iPhone: All Contacts & iPhone. (I am syncing to Outlook via iTunes.)
1. How can I force the phone to enter all new contacts into only the iPhone group? Currently, it seems that any new contact I add automatically goes into All Contacts. I can find no way in Settings or elswhere to stop this from happening. (I know there are old threads on this site that say you can change the Default Contact Group through Settings>Contacts to e.g. iPhone but no version of software on my phone so far - over 2 years - has allowed this.)
2. Is there a way to move contacts out of the All Contacts group into the iPhone group? Other than painfully re-typing the data into the iPhone group and deleting the same contact in All Contacts, there seems to be no way of doing this. Really strange that Apple does not give you an option to easily move a contact from one group to another.
3. Is there a way to sync both groups to Outlook via iTunes? I have tried every place I can find in both the phone and iTunes to make this happen but no luck. If this was possible, then it would be an easy matter in Outlook to move all the contacts to the iPhone group and then resync. Voila! All would be in the iPhone group. Catch 22 - there doesn't seem to be any way of transferring/syncing the contacts in the All Contacts group to anywhere, let alone to Outlook through iTunes.
4. Is there anyone else out there who can see any logical reason why Apple cannot provide the above functionality within the iPhone?
Thanks

No - the syncing process for contact info is a bidirectional or true sync process. There is no setting for not transferring or syncing contacts with an email address only. If you don't want these contacts with an email address only on your iPhone, delete the contacts from the address book used by OE.

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