Autocomplete E-mail Address using ONLY contacts

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Dave - 12 Sep 2005 19:11 GMT

Is there any way to force the auto-complete for e-mail addresses (When
entering a To: address) to use ONLY my contacts list?

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Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook] - 12 Sep 2005 19:47 GMT

I don't think so. The cache will also included hand typed addresses

> Is there any way to force the auto-complete for e-mail addresses (When
> entering a To: address) to use ONLY my contacts list?

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Randy - 12 Sep 2005 20:24 GMT

Dave,

Are you familiar with autoresolution? That is essentially what
autocompletion using your contacts is. You invoke it by typing a few
characters into your To: line then pressing Ctrl + K.

Autocompletion is a totally different function.

Assuming your using OL 2002 or 2003, you may want to read: the document
found at: http://www.ingressor.com/autocompletetips.htm

Randy

> Is there any way to force the auto-complete for e-mail addresses (When
> entering a To: address) to use ONLY my contacts list?
>
> Cheers

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Diane Poremsky [MVP] - 13 Sep 2005 03:13 GMT

you can disable the autocomplete cache and only use autoresolution but you
can't prevent all addresses you reply to from being stored in the
autocomplete cache.

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> Is there any way to force the auto-complete for e-mail addresses (When
> entering a To: address) to use ONLY my contacts list?
>
> Cheers

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Dave - 13 Sep 2005 09:40 GMT

Thanks for the replies.

I do know about auto-resolution, but was hoping that I could have the
convenience of auto-complete without the hassle of it using the cache of
every address I have ever sent to, most of which I no need to ever send
another e-mail to (e.g. when answering a one-off support call)

> Is there any way to force the auto-complete for e-mail addresses (When
> entering a To: address) to use ONLY my contacts list?

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Brian Tillman - 15 Sep 2005 18:42 GMT

> I do know about auto-resolution, but was hoping that I could have the
> convenience of auto-complete without the hassle of it using the cache
> of every address I have ever sent to, most of which I no need to ever
> send another e-mail to (e.g. when answering a one-off support call)

Why not just delete the ones you no longer want?

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Dave - 16 Sep 2005 09:23 GMT

I reply to lots of e-mails, send lot's of e-mails, I would be deleting stuff
all the time. It's less hassle to just ignore that feature altogether.

> Why not just delete the ones you no longer want?

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