How to import email addresses into Word email editor?

[Mark Hammer]

Surely there is a way to bring the autofill list of contact email addresses,
which accumulated in Word as used as Outlook's email editor, from my old
computer to my new one!

An hour's look in Outlook help and a newsgroup search turns up no clue.

TIA to whoever knows how.

--Mark Hammer
Lake Oswego, Oregon

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Your post is unclear.
Post your Outlook version.
Post why you think anything at all "accumulated in Word."
Post what you mean by "autofill list"

 

[Mark Hammer]

Sorry.

Outlook 2003 and Word 2003 on both old and new computers. Windows XP
Professional on both.

On the old computer, when from Outlook's Mail window I click "New", it
opened Word for a new email message. In the "To:" and CC boxes when I start
to type an email address, it would autofill from earlier email addresses
which matched the characters I had typed in. I came to rely on that
feature, and to appreciate it.

Where those earlier entries were stored, I don't know. Word? Outlook?

On my new computer, I've transferred my Outlook.pst file from the old
computer, so all my former email and all my contacts show up on my new one.
However, when I create a new email from outlook, it opens Word, but when
entering an email address I'm starting from scratch--it doesn't have the
history of all the emails I've entered, as did my old computer.

I'm wondering if it is possible to transfer those earlier email entries
which Word recognized on the old computer, to the new one?

I hope this is clearer.

--Mark Hammer

Your post is unclear.
Post your Outlook version.
Post why you think anything at all "accumulated in Word."
Post what you mean by "autofill list"
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Surely there is a way to bring the autofill list of contact email
addresses, which accumulated in Word as used as Outlook's email editor,
from my old computer to my new one!

An hour's look in Outlook help and a newsgroup search turns up no clue.

TIA to whoever knows how.

--Mark Hammer
Lake Oswego, Oregon

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

The autocompletion cache has nothing to do with Word and nothing to do with
your Outlook contacts. It is a separate file created as you send messages. A
new installation would, of course, have nothing in its cache. These
addresses are stored in a file with an NK2 extension. If you can find your
old NK2 file, you can copy it, rename it to match the NK2 file in your new
installation, then replace the new NK2 file with your old one.
More details here:
http://www.dcs-imaging.com/autocompletetips.htm

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Sorry.

Outlook 2003 and Word 2003 on both old and new computers. Windows XP
Professional on both.

On the old computer, when from Outlook's Mail window I click "New", it
opened Word for a new email message. In the "To:" and CC boxes when I
start to type an email address, it would autofill from earlier email
addresses which matched the characters I had typed in. I came to rely on
that feature, and to appreciate it.

Where those earlier entries were stored, I don't know. Word? Outlook?

On my new computer, I've transferred my Outlook.pst file from the old
computer, so all my former email and all my contacts show up on my new
one. However, when I create a new email from outlook, it opens Word, but
when entering an email address I'm starting from scratch--it doesn't have
the history of all the emails I've entered, as did my old computer.

I'm wondering if it is possible to transfer those earlier email entries
which Word recognized on the old computer, to the new one?

I hope this is clearer.

--Mark Hammer

Your post is unclear.
Post your Outlook version.
Post why you think anything at all "accumulated in Word."
Post what you mean by "autofill list"
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Surely there is a way to bring the autofill list of contact email
addresses, which accumulated in Word as used as Outlook's email editor,
from my old computer to my new one!

An hour's look in Outlook help and a newsgroup search turns up no clue.

TIA to whoever knows how.

--Mark Hammer
Lake Oswego, Oregon

 

[Mark Hammer]

Bingo! Right you are, Russ. Thanks!

--Mark

The autocompletion cache has nothing to do with Word and nothing to do
with your Outlook contacts. It is a separate file created as you send
messages. A new installation would, of course, have nothing in its cache.
These addresses are stored in a file with an NK2 extension. If you can
find your old NK2 file, you can copy it, rename it to match the NK2 file
in your new installation, then replace the new NK2 file with your old one.
More details here:
http://www.dcs-imaging.com/autocompletetips.htm

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Sorry.

Outlook 2003 and Word 2003 on both old and new computers. Windows XP
Professional on both.

On the old computer, when from Outlook's Mail window I click "New", it
opened Word for a new email message. In the "To:" and CC boxes when I
start to type an email address, it would autofill from earlier email
addresses which matched the characters I had typed in. I came to rely on
that feature, and to appreciate it.

Where those earlier entries were stored, I don't know. Word? Outlook?

On my new computer, I've transferred my Outlook.pst file from the old
computer, so all my former email and all my contacts show up on my new
one. However, when I create a new email from outlook, it opens Word, but
when entering an email address I'm starting from scratch--it doesn't have
the history of all the emails I've entered, as did my old computer.

I'm wondering if it is possible to transfer those earlier email entries
which Word recognized on the old computer, to the new one?

I hope this is clearer.

--Mark Hammer

Your post is unclear.
Post your Outlook version.
Post why you think anything at all "accumulated in Word."
Post what you mean by "autofill list"
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Surely there is a way to bring the autofill list of contact email
addresses, which accumulated in Word as used as Outlook's email editor,
from my old computer to my new one!

An hour's look in Outlook help and a newsgroup search turns up no clue.

TIA to whoever knows how.

--Mark Hammer
Lake Oswego, Oregon