Outlook creates unnecessary Contacts

I am learning my way with Outlook 2003, having switched from years with Eudora. Can someone help me with this: For some reason Outlook is creating new contacts that I don't need. For example, I have a Contacts listing for my friend John Smith, complete with numbers, addresses, etc. I just checked in "Contacts" for John's Smith's listing and it's there -- but so is a separate Contact for "John Smith mobile ", and another one for "John Smith home phone ", and another one for "John Smith email address ". Each of these newly-created Contacts includes just one data entry -- mobile number, or email address, etc. And that same data still resides properly in the original, complete John Smith Contact.

How did this happen? What button have I failed to push? This is especially aggravating when I synch with my cell phone and end up with so many unnecessary numbers in its memory.

TIA

 

Thanks for taking the time, Steve.

In the meantime I have figured out my problem. (In answer to your question, the contacts were all imported but I imported only one contact per person. These additional, single-line contacts have all been created since then.) The problem was that I didn't have my accounts set up properly.

I think that's taken care of now.

-- Lee