Add drop down autocomplete for company name in Contacts

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I have people in my contacts who all work at the same place but are listed at
different companies due to incorrect spelling, punctuation, or leaving off
"Inc", etc. It would be helpful if an autocomplete dropdown menu showed
companies that have already been saved.

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RBinTN said:
I have people in my contacts who all work at the same place but are
listed at different companies due to incorrect spelling, punctuation,
or leaving off "Inc", etc. It would be helpful if an autocomplete
dropdown menu showed companies that have already been saved.
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The autocompletion list contains addresses to which you've attempted to send
messages in the past. It doesn't tie into your contacts in any way and has
no "company" field. If there is an entry in your autocompletion list you
don't want, when they list pops up, use the arrow keys to select the
unwanted entry and press Delete.
 
Thanks for the quick response, but I really didn't have a question about
autocomplete in email. I posted this in the Outlook Contacts thread in order
to make a suggestion for adding an autocomplete to the company field in
contacts, (so the same autocomplete functionality found in sending email
messages would be available to quickly fill in recently used entries in the
"company" field of a contact.)
 
RBinTN said:
Thanks for the quick response, but I really didn't have a question
about autocomplete in email. I posted this in the Outlook Contacts
thread in order to make a suggestion for adding an autocomplete to
the company field in contacts, (so the same autocomplete
functionality found in sending email messages would be available to
quickly fill in recently used entries in the "company" field of a
contact.)
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Obviously I didn't understand the intent of your message. I should think,
though, that this might work for you. Open your Contacts folder and change
the view to By Company view. Locate a contact with an incorrectly spelled
company name. Select it and drag it to the category where the company's
name IS spelled correctly and let go of the button. If you have several
entries that need changing, select them all and drag as one.
 
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