Selecting email address from Contacts by typing first few letters

[Mark]

I have Outlook 2003. When I type the first few letters of a contact's name, I expect that contact's email address to be filled in from the address book. It doesn't. I can go to the address book and type the same letters and it finds the name. I have played with all the options I can find but nothing seems to make this auto complete or auto lookup feature work. I am sure I have seen this work before on other machines. Can anybody suggest what I might be missing

Thanks.

 

[Patricia Cardoza - [MVP Outlook]]

The feature (AutoComplete) doesn't work the exact way you're thinking.
Outlook 2003 will autocomplete addresses for anyone you have emailed in the
past. Those addresses are stored in a file with the extension of .NK2.
Unfortunately you cannot edit that file.

If you type in the contact's full name, Outlook will autoresolve the name to
the email address. This process even works if you type in the first name (as
long as you don't have two people with the same first name).


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Patricia Cardoza
Outlook MVP
www.cardozasolutions.com

Author, Special Edition Using Microsoft Outlook 2003
Author, Absolute Beginner's Guide to OneNote 2003

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I have Outlook 2003. When I type the first few letters of a contact's

name, I expect that contact's email address to be filled in from the address
book. It doesn't. I can go to the address book and type the same letters
and it finds the name. I have played with all the options I can find but
nothing seems to make this auto complete or auto lookup feature work. I am
sure I have seen this work before on other machines. Can anybody suggest
what I might be missing?