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jason.love
Okay I'm posting this from my livejournal, hoping someone will read it
and comment on it.
I've been using Outlook for, oh, over 10 years now, and there's some
things about it that are still really stupid.
On Outlook 2007 I have a name, lets call him "John Smith" in my
address book. Now, Outlook defaults my address book entries to
lastname, firstname. Okay fine, that makes sense.
So I create a new email and type his name into the to field, John
Smith. Outlook is dumbfounded. I type my message and when I hit send,
Outlook doesn't know who I'm sending it to.
Wtf?
I hit "show more names" and I figure okay, this is because everything
is lastname, firstname. So I try to send another email to John, this
time typing in Smith, John in the to field, but I've previously sent
an email to a John with a different last name, so when I try to send
outlook reads the ", John" as this other John and autofills it with
his address, then interprets the "smith" as an additional name that it
doesn't know! OMG!
So it appears when you type stuff into the "to" field it only uses
outlooks email cache and is not smart enough to go look in your
address book for the email address. How dumb is that?!? Its been 10
years(!!!) since Outlook has been out and it can't do something as
simple as trying to match what you type in your To field to your
address book?
I only say this because since I got my iPhone I've been cleaning up my
address book quite a bit, and this is just a glaring problem I am
having. Really irritating.
Oh, and lets say I go ahead and typed in John Smith, send, then
clicked "show more names" and located the correct address. You'd think
this would then end up in your Outlook email address cache right?
wrong. Try to send John another email later by typing his name and it
is still confused about who you mean.
Is there some setting that's not enabled by default that lets Outlook
try and match what I've typed in the To field with things in my
address book?
and comment on it.
I've been using Outlook for, oh, over 10 years now, and there's some
things about it that are still really stupid.
On Outlook 2007 I have a name, lets call him "John Smith" in my
address book. Now, Outlook defaults my address book entries to
lastname, firstname. Okay fine, that makes sense.
So I create a new email and type his name into the to field, John
Smith. Outlook is dumbfounded. I type my message and when I hit send,
Outlook doesn't know who I'm sending it to.
Wtf?
I hit "show more names" and I figure okay, this is because everything
is lastname, firstname. So I try to send another email to John, this
time typing in Smith, John in the to field, but I've previously sent
an email to a John with a different last name, so when I try to send
outlook reads the ", John" as this other John and autofills it with
his address, then interprets the "smith" as an additional name that it
doesn't know! OMG!
So it appears when you type stuff into the "to" field it only uses
outlooks email cache and is not smart enough to go look in your
address book for the email address. How dumb is that?!? Its been 10
years(!!!) since Outlook has been out and it can't do something as
simple as trying to match what you type in your To field to your
address book?
I only say this because since I got my iPhone I've been cleaning up my
address book quite a bit, and this is just a glaring problem I am
having. Really irritating.
Oh, and lets say I go ahead and typed in John Smith, send, then
clicked "show more names" and located the correct address. You'd think
this would then end up in your Outlook email address cache right?
wrong. Try to send John another email later by typing his name and it
is still confused about who you mean.
Is there some setting that's not enabled by default that lets Outlook
try and match what I've typed in the To field with things in my
address book?