Forcing an alias resolution in Outlook.
Have you ever entered a person’s alias and had the “Check Names” dialogue displayed by the AutoComplete feature? This is something that I have experienced from time to time when sending mail to my colleges. Now don’t get me wrong AutoComplete is an awesome feature when you want to search for a person’s details, but sometimes I just want to force the use of that alias outright. I also want to do this without having to disable AutoComplete.
Well here is a tip to work around this. When you enter the person’s alias precede it with the equals (=) operator. To illustrate this if you where to implicitly force the use of my alias then you would enter it as “=bengay”.
