Outlook 03 Secondary Email Defaults for Email Addresses

[Avonelle Lovhaug]

I recently updated to Office 2003 from Office 2000. While I really
like Outlook 2003, there is one change that really bugs me. I really
wish that when I was creating an email, I could type in the name of my
contact, and then right click on it, and then select the desired email
address if I prefer to use either #2 or #3. In Outlook 2000, I NEVER
used the "To" button, and being forced to do that is lame.

Further...I am experiencing a bug right now with this that makes it
REALLY icky. I have a contact who has two email addresses. I used to
use the secondary address more, but for the past year I have used the
primary email address more frequently. With Outlook 2003, whenever I
type in her name, the secondary email address ALWAYS appears. I
thought that after I used the primary email address a few times,
Outlook 2003 would adapt and default the primary address, but it
hasn't. Frustrated, I actually REMOVED the secondary address entirely
from the email #2 field in my contact record. Outlook 2003 STILL
defaults the removed email address when I type this contact's name. So
now I have to ALWAYS click the "To" button for this particular
contact. (By the way, I also deleted all emails in my PST for which
the unwanted email address was used. This has also not solved the
problem.)

Blech! Does anyone know - is this a known Outlook 2003 bug? Has anyone
else seen this strangeness? Any workarounds? Thanks!

Avonelle Lovhaug

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Sounds like you should just be using autoresolution instead of
autocompletion. Enable the former, (Automatic name checking), disable the
latter (Suggest names...).
Both options are in Advanced E-mail options...

 

[Avonelle Lovhaug]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Both options were enabled, so I disabled "suggest names" as you
indicated, and that seems to have solved the problem. Phew!

--Avonelle

Sounds like you should just be using autoresolution instead of
autocompletion. Enable the former, (Automatic name checking), disable the
latter (Suggest names...).
Both options are in Advanced E-mail options...
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I recently updated to Office 2003 from Office 2000. While I really
like Outlook 2003, there is one change that really bugs me. I really
wish that when I was creating an email, I could type in the name of my
contact, and then right click on it, and then select the desired email
address if I prefer to use either #2 or #3. In Outlook 2000, I NEVER
used the "To" button, and being forced to do that is lame.

Further...I am experiencing a bug right now with this that makes it
REALLY icky. I have a contact who has two email addresses. I used to
use the secondary address more, but for the past year I have used the
primary email address more frequently. With Outlook 2003, whenever I
type in her name, the secondary email address ALWAYS appears. I
thought that after I used the primary email address a few times,
Outlook 2003 would adapt and default the primary address, but it
hasn't. Frustrated, I actually REMOVED the secondary address entirely
from the email #2 field in my contact record. Outlook 2003 STILL
defaults the removed email address when I type this contact's name. So
now I have to ALWAYS click the "To" button for this particular
contact. (By the way, I also deleted all emails in my PST for which
the unwanted email address was used. This has also not solved the
problem.)

Blech! Does anyone know - is this a known Outlook 2003 bug? Has anyone
else seen this strangeness? Any workarounds? Thanks!

Avonelle Lovhaug

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Sometimes new features are hard to get used to, but many users are finding
that they actually prefer autocompeletion to autoresolution. It takes a
while to populate autocompletion cache, but once you do, it obviates much of
the need for autoresolution.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Both options were enabled, so I disabled "suggest names" as you
indicated, and that seems to have solved the problem. Phew!

--Avonelle


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]> wrote in message

Sounds like you should just be using autoresolution instead of
autocompletion. Enable the former, (Automatic name checking), disable the
latter (Suggest names...).
Both options are in Advanced E-mail options...
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I recently updated to Office 2003 from Office 2000. While I really
like Outlook 2003, there is one change that really bugs me. I really
wish that when I was creating an email, I could type in the name of my
contact, and then right click on it, and then select the desired email
address if I prefer to use either #2 or #3. In Outlook 2000, I NEVER
used the "To" button, and being forced to do that is lame.

Further...I am experiencing a bug right now with this that makes it
REALLY icky. I have a contact who has two email addresses. I used to
use the secondary address more, but for the past year I have used the
primary email address more frequently. With Outlook 2003, whenever I
type in her name, the secondary email address ALWAYS appears. I
thought that after I used the primary email address a few times,
Outlook 2003 would adapt and default the primary address, but it
hasn't. Frustrated, I actually REMOVED the secondary address entirely
from the email #2 field in my contact record. Outlook 2003 STILL
defaults the removed email address when I type this contact's name. So
now I have to ALWAYS click the "To" button for this particular
contact. (By the way, I also deleted all emails in my PST for which
the unwanted email address was used. This has also not solved the
problem.)

Blech! Does anyone know - is this a known Outlook 2003 bug? Has anyone
else seen this strangeness? Any workarounds? Thanks!

Avonelle Lovhaug