E-mail shortcut name

[Howard Brazee]

I had this working once, but it stopped.

In Outlook 2000, I have a contact for my e-mail address. It has my name, my
e-mail address, my phone number, my fax number, and a nickname (me).


If I write a new message and put in most of my name, I get a choice between
sending it to my e-mail address, my e-mail address, or my fax-number. Choosing
one of the two choices of e-mail address works. (I can't tell them apart).

If I enter "me", I get a choice of two people in my global e-mail contacts at
work whose names start with "Me".

How do I get it so I can write an e-mail without typing in the whole address or
going through meaningless menus?

 

[Brian Tillman]

In Outlook 2000, I have a contact for my e-mail address. It has my
name, my e-mail address, my phone number, my fax number, and a
nickname (me).

If I write a new message and put in most of my name, I get a choice
between sending it to my e-mail address, my e-mail address, or my
fax-number. Choosing one of the two choices of e-mail address
works. (I can't tell them apart).

If you put an "F" or the word "FAX" in fron of your FA number in your
contact entry, you won't see the FAX entry when you autoresolve.
Alternatively, you can always choose the first one, since the FAX address is
listed after the Email address.

 

[Howard Brazee]

If you put an "F" or the word "FAX" in fron of your FA number in your
contact entry, you won't see the FAX entry when you autoresolve.
Alternatively, you can always choose the first one, since the FAX address is
listed after the Email address.

Testing

This didn't work - but I discovered that I had multiple pages of my addresses,
some with fax and some without. I deleted one, and it still found it. I used
Advanced Find to find it (I still don't know where it was), I opened it, and was
able to File As "me".

That worked, except that when I selected "me", I had a choice between "me" and
"Melissa".

So I changed the nickname to home. That didn't do anything. I changed the
File As to home. Worse. Now it gives me a choice between a couple of Homers,
but not Home.

I changed both the FileAs and the Nickname to HB. It doesn't match anything.

At home I use CU to send to my work's e-mail address just fine. Same version
of Outlook, but not set up as Exchange.