Found contact too many times

[Howard Brazee]

I find it irritating when I try to use contacts sometimes. I create a contact,
add a phone number, a fax number and and a nick name.

I start an e-mail. For a while entering the nick-name works, and then it stops
working and I cannot even FIND the name when I enter it (when I e-mail myself at
home, my nick-name was "me", and that worked for over a year. I forgot what I
did to get it to work last time).

So I start typing in the name and let it auto-complete. It gives me a choice
between e-mailing to two identical versions of my e-mail address (although I can
only find it once in my contacts), or to e-mail to my phone number or my fax
number. I have no idea what would happen if I selected one of those.

If I have to type in the e-mail address, what good is having contacts?

 

[Brian Tillman]

So I start typing in the name and let it auto-complete. It gives me
a choice between e-mailing to two identical versions of my e-mail
address (although I can only find it once in my contacts), or to
e-mail to my phone number or my fax number.

What version of Outlook? If 2002 or 2003, use the arrow keys to highlight
the bogus address (or addresses, one at a time) and press Delete.

If I have to type in the e-mail address, what good is having contacts?

The Autocomplete cache doesn't use your Contacts.

 

[howard]

What version of Outlook? If 2002 or 2003, use the arrow keys to highlight
the bogus address (or addresses, one at a time) and press Delete.
2000


The Autocomplete cache doesn't use your Contacts.

How about nicknames? I want to enter ME and get myself, not a choice
between Melisa Smith and John Meer.

 

[Brian Tillman]

How about nicknames? I want to enter ME and get myself, not a choice
between Melisa Smith and John Meer.

Outlook 2000 doesn't implement an autocomplete cache, only an autoresolution
cache, which _is_ based on your Contacts. I think you're stuck.