Some Contacts on my list don't automatically complete

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

Russ Valentine said:
Autocompletion has nothing to do with your Contacts. It uses a cache of
names from previously sent messages.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Herscheid said:
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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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.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Herscheid said:
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.

Russ Valentine said:
Autocompletion has nothing to do with your Contacts. It uses a cache of
names from previously sent messages.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Herscheid said:
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?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
An example would be - Bob Sangster ([email protected]) . Sometimes this name
does Autocomplete, but usually not. There are others as well. Marilyn
Harris ([email protected]) 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.


Russ Valentine said:
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.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Herscheid said:
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.

Russ Valentine said:
Autocompletion has nothing to do with your Contacts. It uses a cache of
names from previously sent messages.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
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?
Click to expand...
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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
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Herscheid said:
An example would be - Bob Sangster ([email protected]) . Sometimes this
name
does Autocomplete, but usually not. There are others as well. Marilyn
Harris ([email protected]) 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.


Russ Valentine said:
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.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Herscheid said:
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.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
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?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Herscheid said:
An example would be - Bob Sangster ([email protected]) . Sometimes
this name does Autocomplete, but usually not. There are others as
well. Marilyn Harris ([email protected]) is another.
Click to expand...

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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