Tagging and finding duplacate photos

I have two questions I hope someone can help me with.
1 After I use the find faces to tag on a photo and it only tags some people is there some way I can select a face and tag it?
2 I have so many duplicate photos but they are all over the place, can some one tell me how I can find duplicate photos and delete all but 1 of them?
Thanks for any help.
Janice

So if I put them into a folder on my external video drive, I can then import them into FCE?
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(I noted it in German - sorry, I'm not used to write in English...)
The goal is, to use the same Tag-structure to tag photos and also to filter them (most likely as you could do that with PSE 9 ) .
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Thank you for your answer... ;-) - at least I'm not alone... ;-))
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