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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / October 2005First, Last when creating new mail
Im using outlook 2002 and have all my contacts lists LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME. However, when I create a new mail message the type ahead only recognizes the FIRSTNAME. For example: Assume I have 3 names. JONES, MARY JONES, MABELLE JONES, MARK In the TO line I begin to type MA and it lists all three of the JONES names to choose from. But when I type JO I get nothing. I want to have it display names by LASTNAME as I type them. I checked in the Contact Options and played with these settings but could not get it to work. Coincedentally, this works by default in Outlook Express. Any help would be appreciated. MB Autocompletion does not use your Contacts. It uses a cache of names from messages you have recently sent. If you want to search your contacts use Autoresolution instead (Automatic name checking).  SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Im using outlook 2002 and have all my contacts lists LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME. > However, when I create a new mail message the type ahead only recognizes [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > MB Russ, THanks for the quick response but this still is not working for me. Here is an example for you to try to duplicate and see if you get the same problem. Add three contacts: JONES, MARY (mary@whatever.com) JONES, MABELLE (mabelle@whatever.com) JONES, MARK (mark@whatever.com) Notice the first 2 characters of both the FIRST NAME and LAST NAME are identical. JO and MA I want to create a new message for MARY JONES however I do not want to type MA. I want to type JO and get a list of all the JONES. Can this be done? thanks for any help you can provide. > Autocompletion does not use your Contacts. It uses a cache of names from > messages you have recently sent. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > > > MB I already told you why that is happening. Autocompletion does not use your Contacts data. Take some time and read this primer: http://home.indy.rr.com/russval/autocompletion.htm SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Russ, > THanks for the quick response but this still is not working for me. Here [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] >> > >> > MB |
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