Delete "Suggest Names" list

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Simon Smith

Under Advanced Email Options there is a option to "Suggest
names while completing TO, CC and BC fields"
How can the contents of this list be cleared?
 
This may help:

Deleting Unused Addresses from AutoSuggest

As you probably have noticed, when you begin to type a name or email address
in the To, CC or Bcc field of an email, Outlook displays a list of suggested
email addresses. If there is an address in that list that you would rather
not have suggested, just scroll to it using the arrow keys, then press the
Delete key to delete it. The "deleted" address remains in the global
address list, but won't be suggested to you by Outlook.





Judy Freed

Systems Development

UNC Charlotte
 
Thanks, but I was looking for a way to delete the entire
list as we have change email address for everyone and will
need to delete the whole list. They must be stored
somewhere???
 
They
Simon said:
Thanks, but I was looking for a way to delete the entire
list as we have change email address for everyone and will
need to delete the whole list. They must be stored
somewhere???
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They are. They are stored in a file called an NK2 file. This is a hidden,
system folder.

Make certain that you turn on Advanced Search Functions and check Hidden and
System files.

Next, search for the file name *.nk2.

The NK2 file is named as follows: <MS Outlook User Profile Name>.NK2.
Further, it is found in your Documents and Setting Folder.
(Make certain that in your Folder settings, you can view hidden and system
folders.)

You may want to look and see what the contents of the file contains as there
may be some useful information in there. Renaming it to a .bak file will
effectively stop the autocomplete function. If you want to view the entire
contents of this file, you can download a demo version of our utility at
www.dcs-imaging.com/products.htm it's called Owtlook. With it you can open
and view the contents of this file. There are many benefits to being able
to mine the data in these files. Terminated employees and customer
service/sales reps.' computers contain potentially valuable information,
information you may wish to retain prior to deleting or renaming this file.

Randy
 
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