Some Contacts on my list don't automatically complete

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Herscheid - 31 Aug 2006 18:19 GMT

I'm using Outlook 2003 and my contact list was correctly transferred from
Outlook Express. For most of my contacts, I just fill in a letter or two in
the "To:" field of a new e-mail and it will complete the name, or give me a
drop-down list if there are multiple choices. For some reason however, it
does not do this for certain names on my contact list. No matter how many
times I manually input their e-mail address, or go into my contact list and
manually choose them, Outlook still will not autocomplete their names on new
e-mails. It works properly for most contacts, but for these others it is
VERY frustrating. Any suggestions?

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Russ Valentine [MVP Outlook] - 31 Aug 2006 21:13 GMT

Autocompletion has nothing to do with your Contacts. It uses a cache of
names from previously sent messages.

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> I'm using Outlook 2003 and my contact list was correctly transferred from
> Outlook Express. For most of my contacts, I just fill in a letter or two
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> e-mails. It works properly for most contacts, but for these others it is
> VERY frustrating. Any suggestions?

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Herscheid - 31 Aug 2006 22:13 GMT

Okay, maybe I need to reword my question. I've sent numerous messages to
certain names, but the Autocompletion does not seem to recognize them.
Everytime I send an e-mail to one of these people, I have to type in their
name from scratch.

> Autocompletion has nothing to do with your Contacts. It uses a cache of
> names from previously sent messages.
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> > e-mails. It works properly for most contacts, but for these others it is
> > VERY frustrating. Any suggestions?

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Russ Valentine [MVP Outlook] - 31 Aug 2006 23:23 GMT

You'll have to provide more information since you're there and we're not.
You said some names autocomplete and some that "should" don't. Provide a
clear example.

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> Okay, maybe I need to reword my question. I've sent numerous messages to
> certain names, but the Autocompletion does not seem to recognize them.
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>> > is
>> > VERY frustrating. Any suggestions?

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Herscheid - 01 Sep 2006 01:23 GMT

An example would be - Bob Sangster (sangster@shaw.ca) . Sometimes this name
does Autocomplete, but usually not. There are others as well. Marilyn
Harris (eccelstone1@telus.net) is another. Is there some maintenance with
the Autocomplete "cache" that we should be doing? I've sent dozens of
e-mails to these two (and others) and while for most people the Autocomplete
function works as it should, for others it either doesn't work at all, or
works only sometimes.

> You'll have to provide more information since you're there and we're not.
> You said some names autocomplete and some that "should" don't. Provide a
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> >> > is
> >> > VERY frustrating. Any suggestions?

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Russ Valentine [MVP Outlook] - 01 Sep 2006 02:27 GMT

That doesn't tell me anything about why you thought the entry would be
stored and how you invoked it.
No maintenance required. The feature does not just work sporadically as you
suggest.
Perhaps you just need to understand how it works.
http://www.ingressor.com/autocompletetips.htm

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> An example would be - Bob Sangster (sangster@shaw.ca) . Sometimes this
> name
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>> >> > is
>> >> > VERY frustrating. Any suggestions?

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Brian Tillman - 05 Sep 2006 14:49 GMT

> An example would be - Bob Sangster (xyz@shaw.ca) . Sometimes
> this name does Autocomplete, but usually not. There are others as
> well. Marilyn Harris (abc@telus.net) is another.

I hope those aren't real addresses you posted or you've just guaranteed
those people will be inundated with spam and viruses and they won't thank
you for it.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 05 Sep 2006 22:02 GMT

Look at the addresses. I wouldn't worry :)

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>> An example would be - Bob Sangster (xyz@shaw.ca) . Sometimes
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> those people will be inundated with spam and viruses and they won't thank
> you for it.

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Brian Tillman - 06 Sep 2006 02:23 GMT

> Look at the addresses. I wouldn't worry :)

The addresses I include in my post, however, were not the ones included by
the OP.

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