Renaming your NK2 file will of course cause Outlook to create a new, empty
autocompletion cache, so yes, all of your stored entries will be lost.
Renaming your backup file will restore them only if you did so correctly.
Since we have no idea what you did, it appears you did not do so correctly.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Karl" wrote in message
...
You are so right. Not quyite awake this morning. In the meantime, I
followed the Outlook Support itm relating to finding the .nk2 file,
changing
its name to .bak extension and then restsarting Outlook. Did thast but
that
forces a ewdo of all the nickname autocompletes. So I went back, found
the
Outlook.bak file and changed it to Outlook.nk2 and restarted Outlook. Did
not revert to the old nk2 file. Did I do something wrong?

Thanks ofr your assistance on the first issue. Unfortunately, I found
that
out right after I sent the first posting. I'm not quiter the newbie that
probelm inferred.
--
Karl


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Reread the posts. Nowhere will you see "R click" or "Tab."
Use the arrow key to select the entry. Hit Delete.
If you want to change the Email Display As field for your contacts, just
edit that field. You will not be hiding the email address, however.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Karl" wrote in message
...
I have read the various posts about cleaning up my email address lists
to
get
rid of errouneous and old email addresses. My probelm is that when I
get
the
auto-complete listing showin gthe erroneous addresses, nothing happens
when I
right click them or tab to them and try to delete them. Also, may be
part
of
the same problem but I try not to show the persons name and email
address
in
the TO: address box. But many of them still show the address as well as
the
nickname. How do I stop that (I make sure that the Display As: box in
Contact details has only the nickname).

Thanks for any help.
--
Karl