help on automatic name checking

[Guest]

Automatic Name Checking is a selectable option within the Advanced Options of
the E-mail Tools menu.

I would have thought that all options and facitlities within Outlook would
have entries in the Help System. From 2007 Beta I have tried to get Help on
Automatic Name Checking without success.

I understand Auto Complete and have read other entries in the News Group on
this. I thought Automatic Name Checking would be the facility of the
software to check a name as you type from the Outlook contacts file and
suggest results as in Outlook Express. This does not appear to be the case
as I have set it OFF (but on exiting Tools, the Apply button was still grey
so I could not Apply the change) but on tryping a name in the To field of a
message, the result is underlined suggesting a check has been made. Any
comments??

Is there an option to switch off autocomplete and work in the same way as
Express with suggestions coming from the Contacts file and not the
System-built recently typed names file?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Help is never complete in beta applications. The autocomplete and automatic name check features are totally separate. Autocomplete makes suggestions and builds the suggestion list from messages you have sent. Name check attempts to match a typed name with an address stored in one of your address lists.

Outlook doesn't work like Express. It doesn't make suggestions from contacts.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

i also can't get my automatic name check to work. in order for it to work, i
have to click on control k.
i have automatic name check clicked on preferences.
i have office 2003 service pack 2.
thank you in advance

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

What are the symptoms of the problem?

Note that automatic name checking kicks in when you send a message.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

on computers that the name checking works, after you move from TO to CC, the
correct name appears and is underlined. on the computers that it doesn't
work, you move from TO to CC and there is no change. only when i key in
control K , do i get the proper name and underline

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Are both the automatic name check and suggest names options turned on?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Vicki S]

Is it possible to somehow "Copy & Paste" or "Import" the remembered email
addresses from one computer to a new one???

Thanks,
Vicki

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

We've posted the answer to this question many times. Here it is again:
http://www.ingressor.com/autocompletetips.htm
Read the paragraph that starts with:
Migrating your NK2(s) file to a new machine