Auto Complete Doesn't Work

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SnobbishJade

My husband has been sending and receiving emails with Outlook 2003 for many
months. The tools>options>email options>advanced email options>"suggest
names while completing to,cc, and bcc fields" box is checked. On his laptop
and on my computer, when you type "m" in the "to" field, it will autocomplete
the most frequent "m" contact (mary), but not on his computer. He has to
click the to box and find the contact by scrolling or typing. Why isn't his
autocomplete working?
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

What happens if he keeps typing more than one letter?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, SnobbishJade asked:

| My husband has been sending and receiving emails with Outlook 2003
| for many months. The tools>options>email options>advanced email
| options>"suggest names while completing to,cc, and bcc fields" box is
| checked. On his laptop and on my computer, when you type "m" in the
| "to" field, it will autocomplete the most frequent "m" contact
| (mary), but not on his computer. He has to click the to box and find
| the contact by scrolling or typing. Why isn't his autocomplete
| working?
 
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SnobbishJade

nothing happens. If he types a whole name, mary, then when he clicks send,
the address book will appear asking him to choose which mary. There is no
auto complete at all.
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

What if he uses Alt+K to resolve the name? Does it stick the next time? He
may need to rename his N2K file and start over.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
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After furious head scratching, SnobbishJade asked:

| nothing happens. If he types a whole name, mary, then when he clicks
| send, the address book will appear asking him to choose which mary.
| There is no auto complete at all.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| What happens if he keeps typing more than one letter?
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, SnobbishJade asked:
||
||| My husband has been sending and receiving emails with Outlook 2003
||| for many months. The tools>options>email options>advanced email
||| options>"suggest names while completing to,cc, and bcc fields" box
||| is checked. On his laptop and on my computer, when you type "m" in
||| the "to" field, it will autocomplete the most frequent "m" contact
||| (mary), but not on his computer. He has to click the to box and
||| find the contact by scrolling or typing. Why isn't his autocomplete
||| working?
 
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SnobbishJade

Oh, that is a good trick. I typed "m" then alt+k and chose the right mary
from the box. The next time I typed "m", outlook suggested that mary. That
seems to solve the problem, thanks a lot!
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Excellent - I use that little shortcut all the time at work!

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
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After furious head scratching, SnobbishJade asked:

| Oh, that is a good trick. I typed "m" then alt+k and chose the right
| mary from the box. The next time I typed "m", outlook suggested that
| mary. That seems to solve the problem, thanks a lot!
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| What if he uses Alt+K to resolve the name? Does it stick the next
|| time? He may need to rename his N2K file and start over.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, SnobbishJade asked:
||
||| nothing happens. If he types a whole name, mary, then when he
||| clicks send, the address book will appear asking him to choose
||| which mary. There is no auto complete at all.
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| What happens if he keeps typing more than one letter?
||||
|||| --ÂÂ
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, SnobbishJade asked:
||||
||||| My husband has been sending and receiving emails with Outlook 2003
||||| for many months. The tools>options>email options>advanced email
||||| options>"suggest names while completing to,cc, and bcc fields" box
||||| is checked. On his laptop and on my computer, when you type "m"
||||| in the "to" field, it will autocomplete the most frequent "m"
||||| contact (mary), but not on his computer. He has to click the to
||||| box and find the contact by scrolling or typing. Why isn't his
||||| autocomplete working?
 
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Keith LeLievre

It's great that there's a trick for this, but why does this happen in the
first place? Is there a way to prevent this from breaking in the first place?
 

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