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Joe - 09 Jun 2008 15:30 GMT

usually when I start typing an email address in the "to" section
Outlook will autocomplete it if I used it before, it doesn't do it
now, did I somehow unclick something to turn it off? What causes it to
stop functioning?

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Joe - 09 Jun 2008 15:31 GMT

> usually when I start typing an email address in the "to" section
> Outlook will autocomplete it if I used it before, it doesn't do it
> now, did I somehow unclick something to turn it off? What causes it to
> stop functioning?

that should read "addresses"

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 09 Jun 2008 21:04 GMT

Look and see: Tool > Options > Preferences > Email Options... > Advanced
Email options... is "Suggest Names..." checked?

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Matt - 09 Jun 2008 21:48 GMT

Where is that list? I would like to print it out and delete some of them.
Matt

> Look and see: Tool > Options > Preferences > Email Options... > Advanced
> Email options... is "Suggest Names..." checked?
> > usually when I start typing an email address in the "to" section
> > Outlook will autocomplete it if I used it before, it doesn't do it
> > now, did I somehow unclick something to turn it off? What causes it to
> > stop functioning?

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 10 Jun 2008 01:12 GMT

http://www.ingressor.com/autocompletetips.htm

You can't print it without third party software.

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> Where is that list? I would like to print it out and delete some of them.
> Matt
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>> > now, did I somehow unclick something to turn it off? What causes it to
>> > stop functioning?

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deb - 24 Jul 2008 19:29 GMT

I have the same problem myself with Vista. I have looked through all the
responses and attempted to do what Russ Valentine said but, after going to
tool/options, I have no preference tab. When I go to advanced email options,
there is not a place to click "suggest names" or "autocomplete." What am I
missing?

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Melissa W - 24 Sep 2008 13:36 GMT

With Outlook 2003, we had the issue that Outlook just stopped saving names to
the auto-complete list. The auto-complete list is saved in an .nk2 file and
has a limit of 1,000 email addresses. The user had not reached the limit,
only about 600 names. Outlook was cache new email addresses for that day
only and when the user reboot, all new entries were lost and the time stamp
of the .nk2 file was not changing. We used Ingressor software and it found
no issues witht he .nk2 file. We also moved the .nk2 file to other machines
and it worked fine. What we finally discovered was that it was a memory
issue. The user had many (over 100) PST files opened on his tree. After
closing about half of them, the .nk2 file began to update again. Hope this
information helps.

> I have the same problem myself with Vista. I have looked through all the
> responses and attempted to do what Russ Valentine said but, after going to
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> > now, did I somehow unclick something to turn it off? What causes it to
> > stop functioning?

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 24 Sep 2008 21:22 GMT

It certainly does, especially if there is ever one other person on this
planet who tries to open 100 PST files in a single profile. Not sure there
will be. Einsteins aren't just born every day.

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> With Outlook 2003, we had the issue that Outlook just stopped saving names
> to
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>> > now, did I somehow unclick something to turn it off? What causes it to
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