Can't auto-complete e-mail addresses

[Sameer]

Dear All,
I just imported about 2000 contacts in my Outlook 2000 Address Book.
Able to see them in the address book and create groups etc.
But when i compose a new message and i try to enter some e-mail
addresses in TO and then why do outlook do not give me suggestion to
auto-complete them?
I tried most of the settings. It wont work.
What may be the problem?
-Sameer

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook 2000 has no such feature. Autocompletion didn't start until Outlook
2002.
Versions of Outlook earlier than Outlook 2002 have 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.

 

[Sameer]

Outlook 2000 has no such feature. Autocompletion didn't start until Outlook
2002.
Versions of Outlook earlier than Outlook 2002 have 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.
--
Russ Valentine

Dear All,
I just imported about 2000 contacts in my Outlook 2000 Address Book.
Able to see them in the address book and create groups etc.
But when i compose a new message and i try to enter some e-mail
addresses in TO and then why do outlook do not give me suggestion to
auto-complete them?
I tried most of the settings. It wont work.
What may be the problem?
-Sameer

No I managed to install Outlook 2003 on my PC.
The problem still persists.
Autoresolution is working but not able to autocomplete the words. The
words also do not complete when i tab-out of the field. It do show red
lines gives me suggestion by right clicking it.
Please help.
-Sameer

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Have you sent enough messages to have populated your autocompletion cache?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Outlook 2000 has no such feature. Autocompletion didn't start until
Outlook
2002.
Versions of Outlook earlier than Outlook 2002 have 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.
--
Russ Valentine

Dear All,
I just imported about 2000 contacts in my Outlook 2000 Address Book.
Able to see them in the address book and create groups etc.
But when i compose a new message and i try to enter some e-mail
addresses in TO and then why do outlook do not give me suggestion to
auto-complete them?
I tried most of the settings. It wont work.
What may be the problem?
-Sameer

No I managed to install Outlook 2003 on my PC.
The problem still persists.
Autoresolution is working but not able to autocomplete the words. The
words also do not complete when i tab-out of the field. It do show red
lines gives me suggestion by right clicking it.
Please help.
-Sameer

 

[Sameer]

Have you sent enough messages to have populated your autocompletion cache?
--
Russ Valentine

Outlook 2000 has no such feature. Autocompletion didn't start until
Outlook
2002.
Versions of Outlook earlier than Outlook 2002 have 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.
--
Russ Valentine

Dear All,
I just imported about 2000 contacts in my Outlook 2000 Address Book.
Able to see them in the address book and create groups etc.
But when i compose a new message and i try to enter some e-mail
addresses in TO and then why do outlook do not give me suggestion to
auto-complete them?
I tried most of the settings. It wont work.
What may be the problem?
-Sameer

No I managed to install Outlook 2003 on my PC.
The problem still persists.
Autoresolution is working but not able to autocomplete the words. The
words also do not complete when i tab-out of the field. It do show red
lines gives me suggestion by right clicking it.
Please help.
-Sameer

No! I just imported the CSV address book and trying this.
Able to get auto-completion for some of the ids to whom i send mail.
Any other way to populate auto-completion cache?

 

[Brian Tillman]

No! I just imported the CSV address book and trying this.
Able to get auto-completion for some of the ids to whom i send mail.
Any other way to populate auto-completion cache?

You can preload the autocompletion cache with all your contacts' addresses,
if you wish. Open Contacts, select all the contacts with CTRL-A, then click
Actions>New Message to Contact. This will create a new message window with
all your contacts' addresses in the To field. Press CTRL-K to resolve them
all and add them to the autocompletion cache. Then cancel the new message.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Might also want to set Outlook to work offline before you do this just in
case you forget and pull the trigger on this message that you don't really
want to send.

 

[Sameer]

You can preload the autocompletion cache with all your contacts' addresses,
if you wish. Open Contacts, select all the contacts with CTRL-A, then click
Actions>New Message to Contact. This will create a new message window with
all your contacts' addresses in the To field. Press CTRL-K to resolve them
all and add them to the autocompletion cache. Then cancel the new message.

Yes It works! But is it a temporary effect?
I exited from Outlook and started it again.
This time. when i try to compose a new message, i am not able to
autocomplete the words.
Also the autocompletion is of e-mails only(part of email got
completed), but if i type a part of "Name" it wont autocomplete. All
the displaynames are same as names.

Any permanent solution?
-Sameer

 

[Brian Tillman]

Yes It works! But is it a temporary effect?

It's not supposed to be.

I exited from Outlook and started it again.
This time. when i try to compose a new message, i am not able to
autocomplete the words.

If Outlook does not retain the autocompletion data, then you should create a
new mail profile.

Also the autocompletion is of e-mails only(part of email got
completed), but if i type a part of "Name" it wont autocomplete. All
the displaynames are same as names.

I'm not sure I understand what this means.