Autocomplete Office 2007

[lisamarie]

My autocomplete feature is on and it does complete full email addresses which
I've previously used, but it does not autocomplete if I type in a person's
name/nickname, even though the name is in my outlook contacts folder.
Shouldn't autocomplete be able to recognize either the "full name" or "file
as" name that's in the contacts folder?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

No. That's not how it works. Read any of the countless posts here that
explain that.

 

[lisamarie]

Thanks for your reply. I am not a "tech" person, just a home user, so many
of the posts are over my head. I have no idea what nk2 is. However, I read
some other posts and found one of your answers from the thread above mine
(2005) where you said "Autocompletion has nothing to do with your Contacts.
It uses a cache of names created from email you have sent." So does that
mean that autocomplete only draws from email addresses you've typed into the
"to" line, and never draws from your contacts folder? If that is true, is
there some other feature that is allowing this to happen: I type in "dad" in
the "to" line and then his entire home email address pops up to select (it's
the only one), just like with the autocomplete list. The same thing happens
with a few other people's first name's but not everyone. I would like to
have this feature with more names but don't know how it started in the first
place and why it's only for some names.

No. That's not how it works. Read any of the countless posts here that
explain that.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

My autocomplete feature is on and it does complete full email addresses
which
I've previously used, but it does not autocomplete if I type in a person's
name/nickname, even though the name is in my outlook contacts folder.
Shouldn't autocomplete be able to recognize either the "full name" or
"file
as" name that's in the contacts folder?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

There are two different features:
1. Autocompletion only uses names from your autocompletion cache (i.e., a
cache derived from your previous recipients).
2. Autoresolution uses your Contacts data
You can read more than you'll ever care to know about the difference between
these two features here:
http://home.indy.rr.com/russval/autocompletion.htm

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Thanks for your reply. I am not a "tech" person, just a home user, so
many
of the posts are over my head. I have no idea what nk2 is. However, I
read
some other posts and found one of your answers from the thread above mine
(2005) where you said "Autocompletion has nothing to do with your
Contacts.
It uses a cache of names created from email you have sent." So does that
mean that autocomplete only draws from email addresses you've typed into
the
"to" line, and never draws from your contacts folder? If that is true, is
there some other feature that is allowing this to happen: I type in "dad"
in
the "to" line and then his entire home email address pops up to select
(it's
the only one), just like with the autocomplete list. The same thing
happens
with a few other people's first name's but not everyone. I would like to
have this feature with more names but don't know how it started in the
first
place and why it's only for some names.

No. That's not how it works. Read any of the countless posts here that
explain that.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

My autocomplete feature is on and it does complete full email addresses
which
I've previously used, but it does not autocomplete if I type in a
person's
name/nickname, even though the name is in my outlook contacts folder.
Shouldn't autocomplete be able to recognize either the "full name" or
"file
as" name that's in the contacts folder?