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Keith Johnson - 14 Jan 2004 00:40 GMT

Hello All,

Does anyone know how to turn autocomplte on in MS
Outlook. I updated the program sometime ago and ever
since then I have not been able to get the function to
work again. I tried turning it off and on but to no avail.

Any help would be appreciated.

Keith

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 14 Jan 2004 02:03 GMT

Post your Outlook version and what you tried.

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Keith Johnson - 14 Jan 2004 03:43 GMT

I'm using Outlook 2002. The program was crashing
intermittently and I performed a detect and repair.

Right after doing the detect and repair is when I noticed
that my autocomplete function wasn't working anymore.
I tried turning it off restarting and turning it back on
but that didn't work.

Any help would be appreciated.

Keith

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 14 Jan 2004 10:16 GMT

I'll ask again.
How are you "turning it on?"
How do you know it's not working? Have you even repopulated your
autocompletion cache with enough names to tell?

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Keith Johnson - 14 Jan 2004 15:50 GMT

Hello Russ,

I turned it on and off by going to tools> options> email
options> advanced email options> then I selected suggest
names when completing To,Cc and Bcc fields.

I send emails to the same people all the time so I would
think that the cache is populated. By the way, does the
cache file have a NK2 extension? I tried to find this
file after reading Microsoft Knowledge Base Article -
287854. I searched my hard drive but could not find it. I
didn't upgrade from Outlook 2000 but I was trying to find
a solution to my issue.

Thanks for all of your help

Keith

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 14 Jan 2004 22:20 GMT

What was this "update" you applied? If it created a new profile, your
autocompletion cache started over from scratch.
See if autocomplete recalls an address to a message you must sent.

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