Selectively turn off suggest names in outlook

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It is all too easy to mistakenly send an e-mail to a wrong contact in
Outlook. (I have done this only once but the risk is significant.)
If one can selectively turn off the automatic look up feature for a contact
she/he chooses then this risk would be reduced.


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I doubt you want to turn off "automatic look up" (automatic name checking).
You want to turn off autocompletion.
Feature already exists.
You can turn off either or both autocompletion (Suggest Names) and
autoresolution (Automatic Name checking) in Tools > Options... > Perferences
Tab > Email... > Email Options... > Advanced Email options...
 
Many thanks. But I want to turn this off for SELECTED contacts only!

Russ Valentine said:
I doubt you want to turn off "automatic look up" (automatic name checking).
You want to turn off autocompletion.
Feature already exists.
You can turn off either or both autocompletion (Suggest Names) and
autoresolution (Automatic Name checking) in Tools > Options... > Perferences
Tab > Email... > Email Options... > Advanced Email options...
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mehrdad said:
It is all too easy to mistakenly send an e-mail to a wrong contact in
Outlook. (I have done this only once but the risk is significant.)
If one can selectively turn off the automatic look up feature for a
contact
she/he chooses then this risk would be reduced.


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http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...b7f6b679&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
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That would be an infrequent request indeed, I suspect.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
mehrdad said:
Many thanks. But I want to turn this off for SELECTED contacts only!

Russ Valentine said:
I doubt you want to turn off "automatic look up" (automatic name
checking).
You want to turn off autocompletion.
Feature already exists.
You can turn off either or both autocompletion (Suggest Names) and
autoresolution (Automatic Name checking) in Tools > Options... >
Perferences
Tab > Email... > Email Options... > Advanced Email options...
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
mehrdad said:
It is all too easy to mistakenly send an e-mail to a wrong contact in
Outlook. (I have done this only once but the risk is significant.)
If one can selectively turn off the automatic look up feature for a
contact
she/he chooses then this risk would be reduced.


----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the
"I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and
then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...b7f6b679&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
mehrdad said:
Many thanks. But I want to turn this off for SELECTED contacts only!
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The problem with that thinking is twofold. The first is that autocompletion
has nothing to do with your contacts. The second is that the autocompletion
cache can't predict what address you're _thinking_ about using before you
start typing it.
 
AS Russ correctly points out that would be infrequent. Although I have
response to the problem posed by you, I as a user am not concerned with the
mechanics of the matter, I have a practical need to be addressed: I want
'look-up' feature to be on and I want this to be able to turned it off (and
later turned on) for the contacts I select. This command should be available
on the right click short-cut menu on the contact. This way I would not
mistakenly send a message to someone to whom I have only sent a message or to
sometime ago instead of friend to whom I sent a mail every other day.
 
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