Outlook 2002 SP3 Autofill Email Address Problems

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twjeff - 29 Aug 2006 21:56 GMT

I like the autofill funcion in outlook, however, it appears that the autofill
storage space is limited to about 200 email addresses or less. I just did a
big mail merge email to some new customers and then after doing this those
email addresses replaced those email addresses that normally show up in the
autofill, which is creating a huge headache for me now as I have to go and
look up old emails to find email addresses of people I want to contact more
regularlly. Is there anyway to increase the memory size or is there
something else I can do, or is this just a outlook flaw?

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Russ Valentine [MVP Outlook] - 29 Aug 2006 22:16 GMT

You missed it by a fivefold margin.
The autocompletion cache stores 1000 names before it starts culling (FIFO).

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>I like the autofill funcion in outlook, however, it appears that the
>autofill
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> regularlly. Is there anyway to increase the memory size or is there
> something else I can do, or is this just a outlook flaw?

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twjeff - 29 Aug 2006 22:21 GMT

Can I expand that list? 1000 is still not enough. I think I sent out 1000
emails by mail merge last week. Which obviously created a problem for the
normal emails I send. Is there anyway to bring those back or increase the
size?

Thanks

> You missed it by a fivefold margin.
> The autocompletion cache stores 1000 names before it starts culling (FIFO).
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> > regularlly. Is there anyway to increase the memory size or is there
> > something else I can do, or is this just a outlook flaw?

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Russ Valentine [MVP Outlook] - 29 Aug 2006 23:09 GMT

No to both. Won't change in Outlook 2003 or 2007.
Obvious solution is to turn off autocomplete before you do large mail merges
if you don't want to cache those addresses.

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> Can I expand that list? 1000 is still not enough. I think I sent out
> 1000
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>> > regularlly. Is there anyway to increase the memory size or is there
>> > something else I can do, or is this just a outlook flaw?

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twjeff - 30 Aug 2006 07:50 GMT

HI Russ,

If, by chance you are working for Microsoft, please make this suggestion.
The autocomplete cache is not big enough especially for businesses, I would
like to see the user be able to set that manually, up to say 10,000+
addresses.

Thanks!

> No to both. Won't change in Outlook 2003 or 2007.
> Obvious solution is to turn off autocomplete before you do large mail merges
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> >> > regularlly. Is there anyway to increase the memory size or is there
> >> > something else I can do, or is this just a outlook flaw?

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Russ Valentine [MVP Outlook] - 30 Aug 2006 10:16 GMT

I don't. But you can make the suggestion yourself.
To submit product or service suggestions to Microsoft:

1. Within the specific Microsoft Office product, navigate to the Help
menu.
2. Click the "Contact Us" option.
3. You can then use the "Make a Suggestion" link on the webpage to submit
any suggestion. This posts the suggestion to the "Microsoft Community". The
Microsoft Community is a public forum where you can submit suggestions for
Microsoft products and see suggestions that others have made. Community
participants vote for suggestions, and Microsoft uses the votes to help
prioritize features in upcoming versions.

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> HI Russ,
>
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>> >> > regularlly. Is there anyway to increase the memory size or is there
>> >> > something else I can do, or is this just a outlook flaw?

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twjeff - 31 Aug 2006 00:06 GMT

Hi Russ,

Unfortunately the "Make a suggestion" link does not exist. I have searched
all through the contact us site and cannot find anything related, even on
secondary levels...

> I don't. But you can make the suggestion yourself.
> To submit product or service suggestions to Microsoft:
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> >> >> > regularlly. Is there anyway to increase the memory size or is there
> >> >> > something else I can do, or is this just a outlook flaw?

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