Ghost contact Outlook in Office XP

[CB]

Whenever I type a name that was in a previous address
book in Outlook, it fills in the old e-mail address.
When looking at Properties, I get the following
message: "the name or distribution list has been deleted
and is longer a valid Address Book entry". Evidently
this was a problem with earlier versions of Outlook for
which there are work arounds but I have not found a
solution for Office XP. I would like to remove the ghost
contact from my address book.

Any suggestions?

 

[Craig Anderson]

I too am very frustrated by this same problem. Found no
mention in knowledge base. Today stumbled upon possible
workaround: 1) Add the old email address to Contacts and
save; 2) then delete that new saved contact from
Contacts. It seems to have eliminated the autofill using
old address. Let us know if someone finds a better
solution.

 

[Craig Anderson]

Ok, found the KB article in 14 Sept post:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
US;Q287623
It worked for me. Life is good again.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

You need to provide more details on exactly what you are doing when you get
that error message.
I'm not certain you are dealing with the same issue here.