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Auto Complete Names in "To" Field
If you type David Smith in the "To" field, the auto complete function doesn't
work if his name was stored as Dave Smith. When you do a web search for David LastName, search engines understand you might also want want Dave. It would be great if the auto complete for addresses in the "to" field worked the way search engines do. ---------------- 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/comm...tlook.contacts |
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Auto Complete Names in "To" Field
You don't understand how autocompletion works. It uses the email address to
which you have sent messages. So it uses the information you provide to the cache. It is not a search engine. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "TKS_Mark" wrote in message ... If you type David Smith in the "To" field, the auto complete function doesn't work if his name was stored as Dave Smith. When you do a web search for David LastName, search engines understand you might also want want Dave. It would be great if the auto complete for addresses in the "to" field worked the way search engines do. ---------------- 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/comm...tlook.contacts |
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Auto Complete Names in "To" Field
The autocomplete cache (the names that come up as you type) is not a search
engine, it is a cache of names recently used, just like the web sites stored in the address bar of a browser or the form fields that store your user names when you log into web sites. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "TKS_Mark" wrote in message ... If you type David Smith in the "To" field, the auto complete function doesn't work if his name was stored as Dave Smith. When you do a web search for David LastName, search engines understand you might also want want Dave. It would be great if the auto complete for addresses in the "to" field worked the way search engines do. ---------------- 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/comm...tlook.contacts |
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Auto Complete Names in "To" Field
I don't understand how THIS autocompletion works. It brings up addressess I
have long deleted from my address book and yet an address I use regularly does not come up and I have to search the address book - why does it bring up addressess I no longer have or use. Regards Mardi "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: You don't understand how autocompletion works. It uses the email address to which you have sent messages. So it uses the information you provide to the cache. It is not a search engine. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "TKS_Mark" wrote in message ... If you type David Smith in the "To" field, the auto complete function doesn't work if his name was stored as Dave Smith. When you do a web search for David LastName, search engines understand you might also want want Dave. It would be great if the auto complete for addresses in the "to" field worked the way search engines do. ---------------- 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/comm...tlook.contacts |
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Auto Complete Names in "To" Field
Entries do not leave the cache until you delete them from there or exceed
2000 entries. If new entries are not appearing, Outlook has stopped writing to your cache. Autocompletion is not a robust or reliable feature. It frequently stops working usually because Outlook loses its connection to its autocompletion cache. This can happen for a number of reasons, most often because Outlook is not exiting completely and thus not writing to the cache. Make sure you run no add-ins or sync software that might hold Outlook open after you exit. After you find and resolve the problem that is preventing Outlook from exiting properly, you may need to create a new Outlook profile to get autocompletion to work again. If you're lucky you'll be able to migrate your old cache to the new profile following directions he http://www.ingressor.com/autocompletetips.htm -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Mardi" wrote in message ... I don't understand how THIS autocompletion works. It brings up addressess I have long deleted from my address book and yet an address I use regularly does not come up and I have to search the address book - why does it bring up addressess I no longer have or use. Regards Mardi "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: You don't understand how autocompletion works. It uses the email address to which you have sent messages. So it uses the information you provide to the cache. It is not a search engine. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "TKS_Mark" wrote in message ... If you type David Smith in the "To" field, the auto complete function doesn't work if his name was stored as Dave Smith. When you do a web search for David LastName, search engines understand you might also want want Dave. It would be great if the auto complete for addresses in the "to" field worked the way search engines do. ---------------- 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/comm...tlook.contacts |
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