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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / December 2005Selectively turn off suggest names in outlook
It is all too easy to mistakenly send an e-mail to a wrong contact in Outlook. (I have done this only once but the risk is significant.) If one can selectively turn off the automatic look up feature for a contact she/he chooses then this risk would be reduced. I doubt you want to turn off "automatic look up" (automatic name checking). You want to turn off autocompletion. Feature already exists. You can turn off either or both autocompletion (Suggest Names) and autoresolution (Automatic Name checking) in Tools > Options... > Perferences Tab > Email... > Email Options... > Advanced Email options...  SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > It is all too easy to mistakenly send an e-mail to a wrong contact in > Outlook. (I have done this only once but the risk is significant.) [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=a72de18b-a840-4 1d5-863e-e988b7f6b679&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.contacts Many thanks. But I want to turn this off for SELECTED contacts only! > I doubt you want to turn off "automatic look up" (automatic name checking). > You want to turn off autocompletion. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=a72de18b-a840-4 1d5-863e-e988b7f6b679&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.contacts That would be an infrequent request indeed, I suspect. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Many thanks. But I want to turn this off for SELECTED contacts only! > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >> > >> > http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=a72de18b-a840-4 1d5-863e-e988b7f6b679&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.contacts > Many thanks. But I want to turn this off for SELECTED contacts only! The problem with that thinking is twofold. The first is that autocompletion has nothing to do with your contacts. The second is that the autocompletion cache can't predict what address you're _thinking_ about using before you start typing it. SignatureBrian Tillman AS Russ correctly points out that would be infrequent. Although I have response to the problem posed by you, I as a user am not concerned with the mechanics of the matter, I have a practical need to be addressed: I want 'look-up' feature to be on and I want this to be able to turned it off (and later turned on) for the contacts I select. This command should be available on the right click short-cut menu on the contact. This way I would not mistakenly send a message to someone to whom I have only sent a message or to sometime ago instead of friend to whom I sent a mail every other day. > > Many thanks. But I want to turn this off for SELECTED contacts only! > > The problem with that thinking is twofold. The first is that autocompletion > has nothing to do with your contacts. The second is that the autocompletion > cache can't predict what address you're _thinking_ about using before you > start typing it. |
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