Autocomplete addresses by first name

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I am using outlook 2003 and WinXP. We recently upgraded to 2003 and I would
like to be able to search for addresses in my Global directory by first
names. I used to be able to type a first name and do a "check names" and I
would get the person I wanted. If I wanted to use their name again I would
type the first letters of their name. Is there a way to do this. It seems I
have to search by last name all the time in order to find people. THanks!
 
First of all you are talking about autoresolution, not autocompletion. What
you seem to be describing is a symptom of using cached mode.
 
Oh, you are right, I may be using the two terms interchangable. What I want
to be able to do is type a first name and have outlook find the users
preferrably by using Autocorrect but if not by using Autoresolution. Seems
it is working for some people and not for others in the organization...
which, as you said, could be related to cache mode. Can you point me to any
sites that can explain this for me. THanks!

Russ Valentine said:
First of all you are talking about autoresolution, not autocompletion. What
you seem to be describing is a symptom of using cached mode.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Vicky said:
I am using outlook 2003 and WinXP. We recently upgraded to 2003 and I
would
like to be able to search for addresses in my Global directory by first
names. I used to be able to type a first name and do a "check names" and
I
would get the person I wanted. If I wanted to use their name again I
would
type the first letters of their name. Is there a way to do this. It
seems I
have to search by last name all the time in order to find people. THanks!
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I haven't seen anything in the KB, but there have been countless
descriptions of that behavior posted here.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Vicky said:
Oh, you are right, I may be using the two terms interchangable. What I
want
to be able to do is type a first name and have outlook find the users
preferrably by using Autocorrect but if not by using Autoresolution.
Seems
it is working for some people and not for others in the organization...
which, as you said, could be related to cache mode. Can you point me to
any
sites that can explain this for me. THanks!

Russ Valentine said:
First of all you are talking about autoresolution, not autocompletion.
What
you seem to be describing is a symptom of using cached mode.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Vicky said:
I am using outlook 2003 and WinXP. We recently upgraded to 2003 and I
would
like to be able to search for addresses in my Global directory by first
names. I used to be able to type a first name and do a "check names"
and
I
would get the person I wanted. If I wanted to use their name again I
would
type the first letters of their name. Is there a way to do this. It
seems I
have to search by last name all the time in order to find people.
THanks!
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Vicky said:
Oh, you are right, I may be using the two terms interchangable. What
I want to be able to do is type a first name and have outlook find
the users preferrably by using Autocorrect but if not by using
Autoresolution. Seems it is working for some people and not for
others in the organization... which, as you said, could be related to
cache mode. Can you point me to any sites that can explain this for
me.
Click to expand...

To add to what Russ is saying, you'll never get it to use the autoxompletion
cache for that (because that's not how autocompletion works), but I find
that if I enter a first name and press CTRL-K, sometimes it finds people by
first name and sometimes not, or it will find some people but not all. For
example, if I enter "Art", I see "Arthur, Joe", "Artimus, John", "Jones,
Arthur", and "Smith, Art", but if I look up people with Find, I see other
names besides just those. Go figure.
 
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