Auto-completion in Outlook

RE: Auto-completion in Outlook

Axel Werner — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:59:00 GMT

HELL! I Searched an hour for that tip through the Microshit's NoKnowledgeBase and all i got is the solution to reset the hole completion cache. But no word about deleting single enries. THANKS FOR THIS TIP AND FOR THIS SITE!!!! YOU RESCUED ME!

RE: Auto-completion in Outlook

Axel Werner — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:01:00 GMT

PS: i forgot to say that this will work with Outlook 2002 XP,too!!

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Linda — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:21:00 GMT

Is there any way to find the file data for the whole thing and delete en masse...I have years of bad addresses and would dearly love to clean it all up

thanks

Linda

re: Auto-completion in Outlook

KC Lemson — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 23:49:00 GMT

Yes: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=292882

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Aaron Abend — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:28:00 GMT

Ditto the other comments. Spent a half hour before I found this obvious answer. Would it destroy microsoft's unquestioned dominance of the software world and cost Bill 46 billion to put this information in the online help?

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Carol / Texas — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:03:00 GMT

KC: Thank you for this auto-complete/DELETE tip. It will save me the embarrassment of (once again) sending emails to the wrong "Cindy Ba....". I Googled you right up, but really... couldn't MS put this tip in their Answer Wizard!!

re: Auto-completion in Outlook

Aubs — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:16:00 GMT

Hi,

Just like the other posters, thanks for the invaluable information, much appreciated.

One other little annoyance I have, is when, for example...

Monday, you type an address into a new email as: "sample@" - and it gives you the option of selecting an "auto complete" email address. That's great.

Tuesday, you type an address into a new email as: "sample@" - it doesn't give you the "auto complete". you then try any other email address 'I KNOW I HAVE SENT AN EMAIL TO THEM BEFORE... GRRRR!' and it still doesn't work!!

Any suggestion greatly appreciated.

Aubs.

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Paul — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 00:25:00 GMT

Thanks for the Tip. This was the easiest way to find this solution.

Paul.

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Elvira — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 06:30:00 GMT

Thank you very much KC. I really needed this information. Tried to search for it a few months ago on Google and didn't find anything. Was so lucky to find your website!

Your baby is lovely. So great to see a happy woman in IT who has both a great job and a great family!

All the best with everything.

Regards

Elvira

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Ron Cannon — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 01:34:00 GMT

Has this capability been removed. When I go to the advanced email options there is no place to change the auto completion settings. It is amazing that I have searched HELP files for this and nothing comes up whatsoever. Microsoft really s**ks.

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zgeist — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:08:00 GMT

I am having the same problem as Aubs - sometimes autocomplete works, and sometimes it doesn't. I checked, and it IS configured, ie, turned on.

Sigh. It never failed on Outlook Express.

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Andrew / NZ — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:50:00 GMT

Like all the rest I have been pulling my hair out over this one for ages... A big thanks from the other side of the planet as well

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Chris Huson — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:27:00 GMT

Is there a reason auto-completion no longer works if you type in the first name first? It is very irritating to have to retype names after you realize auto-completion is doing nothing. The old behavior was very useful.

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Oliver — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:34:00 GMT

The Windows UI team or at least the IE team should also adopt this ... I'd love to be able to delete IE history entries this way so that stuff that has popped up on me doesn't fill my address full of cruft :)

re: Auto-completion in Outlook

Matt CA — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:51:00 GMT

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;287623

SUMMARY
Microsoft Outlook maintains a nickname list that is used by both the automatic name checking and the automatic completion features. The nickname list is automatically generated as you use Outlook. If the nickname cache is corrupted, Outlook may not be able to identify recipients, may offer incorrect recipients when automatically completing the e-mail address, or may send the message to the wrong person.

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Roxstar — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:36:00 GMT

thnx you thnx you... very helpful with people changing emails all the time

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Iwan — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 19:25:00 GMT

just dropping a note to say thanks. this tip is very useful. :)

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