That list has nothing to do with your Contacts. It is only a list of
addresses to which you've previously sent messages. It will populate as you
send messages.
If you're in a hurry to populate it with all your Contacts, you can use this
trick:
In MS Outlook, go to tools, options, mail setup, send/receive. Uncheck the
"Send immediately when connected box". Next, press the Send/Receive Button
(in Options) and uncheck "Schedule an automatic send/receive". Finally,
click "Work Offline, or if you want to be extra careful, disconnect your
computer from the internet by removing your network and/or telephone
connection.
Now open a new e-mail, press the bcc or to or cc button, select the contact
folder you would like to bring into your NK2 (autocomplete) file. Select
all names by highlighting first and last contact and then add them by
pressing the OK button at the bottom. With your computer disconnected from
your mail server, press the send button. This will automatically populate
your autocomplete file with all of the selected e-mail addresses. Next, go
to your Outbox and delete the e-mail(s) that you just created. Go back into
your Tools, Options, Mail Setup, Send/Receive and change your options back
to the original settings. Remember to put your mail settings back and plug
in your removed cables.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
snap25 said:
What i mean is the auto address list that appears when you type in the
first
letter of an email address when you send an email.
I am running office 2003
Russ Valentine said:
Explain what you mean by the "drop down email list." There are lots of
those.
Include your Outlook version when you ask questions, please.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
snap25 said:
Is there a way of getting all my contacts to appear in the drop down
email
address list.
I have imported a stack of contacts but they don't appear in the email
address list yet.
Thanks Matt