Build AutoComplete List (Outlook.nk2) from Contact List.

[genojoe]

I have a new computer with a newly created contact list. Is there a way to
add the contact list to AutoComplete file without actually sending an email
to each person in this newly created list?

 

[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

yep. Turn off send and recieve or just pull the network cable out of your
PC. Address an email to every Contact in the To, CC or BCC field. Send it.
It will get stuck in your Outbox. Go there and Delete it. Plug back in.


Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Trainer and Consultant

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[Brian Tillman]

I have a new computer with a newly created contact list. Is there a
way to add the contact list to AutoComplete file without actually
sending an email to each person in this newly created list?

Sure. Open your Contacts folder, select all the entries with CTRL-A, then
click Actions>New Message to Contact. A new message window will open with
all of your contacts in the To field. Press CTRL-K to cause them all to be
resolved, indicated by an underline under each contact. The process of
resolving an address adds it to the autocompletion cache. Click the X in
the upper right of the new message window to close it, and answer No when
asked if you want to save the changes.

 

[BobG81]

This does not work. "Actions" does not give option of "New Message to
Contact."
Control A works to select all.

 

[Diane Poremsky {MVP}]

Version of outlook? if 2007, got to actions, create, new message to
contact.