How can Outlook recognize a contact automatically?

[Guest]

I'm trying to get my office Outlook to recognize a name in the "to" section
of a new message. There is probably a place to do this that is automatically
selected on my laptop, but I can't figure it out on this desktop...

 

[Steven M (remove wax and invalid to reply)]

Je Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:51:16 -0700, "lorilondonnyc"

I'm trying to get my office Outlook to recognize a name in the "to" section
of a new message. There is probably a place to do this that is automatically
selected on my laptop, but I can't figure it out on this desktop...

Is this a name that you are typing in the To field? Beginning with
Outlook 2002, the program can automatically recognize the name and
look up the address while you're working. That's not possible in
other versions, but it's no big deal in 2000:

1. Press Ctrl-K to make Outlook check the names and look up the
addresses.

2. Send the message, and Outlook will do the lookup at that time.

 

[Guest]

Actually I'm probably not framing the question properly-- I'm looking to turn
on the feature that will recognize a recipient after just typing in the first
few characters of their address-- mostly useful when someone has a difficult
to spell address, or hard to remember. Is there a way to set this? Thanks
for your help!

 

[Brian Tillman]

Actually I'm probably not framing the question properly-- I'm looking
to turn on the feature that will recognize a recipient after just
typing in the first few characters of their address--

That's autocompletion and exists on Outlook 2002/2003.