outlook 2003 and name complete and email signature

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Adam De Paolis

Hello,

I upgraded recently to outlook 2003 from outlook 2000 and have a
couple questions to the outlook gods in this forum.

1) I used to have an insert signature button but in outlook 2003, I
cant seem to find it. If I should click the triangle next to options,
I can display my signature but I cant insert it.

2) I used to be able to type a users first name in the To: field when
addressing a new message and it used to complete the persons email
address for me. Now it only works if I type the persons last name.
 
In place upgrades for versions that far apart are not recommended. So there
is no way to tell what happened to your signatures. Nor did you provide
enough information to troubleshoot. We don't even know which email editor
you were and are using. You should be creating new sigs from scratch in your
new version. There is no way the old ones would persist.

On the second issue, your description is not compatible with reality.
Outlook 2000 did not even have an autocompletion feature. You'll need to
provide a more complete description of the behavior you were seeing in
Outlook 2000 that you thought was autocompletion for us to figure out what
was really going on there.
 
The symptoms sound like you haven't set the GAL as one of the name
resolution lists. Choose Tools | Address Book, then in the Address Book
dialog, Tools | Options.

Another possible cause would be a change by the Exchange administrator in
what fields are exposed by the GAL for address resolution.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



Keith Evans said:
My company Global Address List is organised "Lastname, Firstname". In
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Outlook 2000, I used to be able to address an email as "Firstname Lastname",
and Outlook would resolve it to an address in the GAL. Outlook 2003 does not
do this, I have to address emails as "Lastname, Firstname" in order for
Outlook to resolve the address. This also means I cannot use comma as an
address separator. Is there an option in Outlook 2003 to enable it to
resolve "Firstname Lastname" format as Outlook 2000 used to do?
 
Did the server change?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



Keith Evans said:
Alas no. The GAL is in my name resolution list. If I address To:
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"Lastname, Firstname", Outlook finds the entry in the GAL no problem. But if
I use "Firstname Lastname", as I used to with Outlook 2000, I just get the
"Check Names" dialog box.
 
I don't think so. If I run Outlook 2000, with the same Exchange server, I still get the correct behaviour. All that has changed is that I am using Outlook 2003 vs Outlook 2000 as my mail client. This seems like a functional regression/bug wrt O 2003 vs O 2000.

Thanks,
-Keith
 
I don't think so. If I run Outlook 2000 against the same Exchange server I still get the desired behaviour. This seems like a bug/regression of Outlook 2003 vs Outlook 2000.

Thanks,
-Keith
 
I am having this same problem. Was there ever any resolution for this?

I upgrade from Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2003 and things worked fine
until I got a new system and now it doesn't. I'm having the exact same
problem.


Keith said:
I don't think so. If I run Outlook 2000 against the same Exchange
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server I still get the desired behaviour. This seems like a
bug/regression of Outlook 2003 vs Outlook 2000.
 
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