Outlook 2000 Auto Assign Domain to Incomplete Address

[catlook]

My company is swtiching us to Outlook 2000. So far it's fine, but
it's very tiresome having to type in "(e-mail address removed)" instead of
just "alias" and letting the email program assume the "@mycompany.com"
in the absence of an explicit domain. One option would be to enter
every possible alias in my contacts...but after 3 or 4 hundred people,
I'd probably give up!

Is there a way to set this kind of automatic feature up? Possibly
using a filter of some kind? (I expect more recent versions of
Outlook already incorporate this feature, and, no, my company is not
considering upgrading). Also, the companies LDAP feature apparently
doesn't utilize our own aliases.

I look forward to your suggestions!

-cat

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

The feature you are talking about is Auto-complete.

Outlook doesn't do auto-complete. It has a feature called auto-resolution.
If you enter part of a name or a nickname then tab out of the field (or hit
Alt-K [Check Names]), Outlook will attempt to resolve the name against your
address book. If it can't it'll red underline it and you can right click on
the name to manually resolve it. Outlook will save the resolution for future
use.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
catlook <[email protected]> asked:

| My company is swtiching us to Outlook 2000. So far it's fine, but
| it's very tiresome having to type in "(e-mail address removed)" instead of
| just "alias" and letting the email program assume the "@mycompany.com"
| in the absence of an explicit domain. One option would be to enter
| every possible alias in my contacts...but after 3 or 4 hundred people,
| I'd probably give up!
|
| Is there a way to set this kind of automatic feature up? Possibly
| using a filter of some kind? (I expect more recent versions of
| Outlook already incorporate this feature, and, no, my company is not
| considering upgrading). Also, the companies LDAP feature apparently
| doesn't utilize our own aliases.
|
| I look forward to your suggestions!
|
| -cat