suggest names in To: field

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Stephen Green

Moving from Outlook Express to Outlook 2003. When creating a new e-mail
message in OE, I could type one or two letters and OE would complete the
address based on entries in the Address Book.

Outlook doesn't seem to do that. It can remember name/addresses previously
entered, but won't suggest names from the Address Book.

Is there any way to enable that function in Outlook 2003?

Thanks.

Stephen
 
Stephen said:
Moving from Outlook Express to Outlook 2003. When creating a new
e-mail message in OE, I could type one or two letters and OE would
complete the address based on entries in the Address Book.

Outlook doesn't seem to do that. It can remember name/addresses
previously entered, but won't suggest names from the Address Book.

Is there any way to enable that function in Outlook 2003?

Thanks.

Stephen
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Outlook will do autocomplete, but it doesn't look up anything in your
address book - it relies on what you've used before. It will continue to
learn - give it time.

It also uses autoresolve, which will help you now - type in part of a
name/address (at least three letters) and press the Check Names button or
press F9. That *does* do lookups to your contacts folders/address books.

Outlook is not OE and vice versa - they're entirely separate programs,
despite their similar names - don't expect everything to be as you're used
to. You will get a lot more out of Outlook than OE, but you'll need to learn
what's different as you go along.
 
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