Windows Mail Contacts

[peewee]

When I start an email by typing in the name of the recipients, who are
all in my address book; the address of the person does not come up
automatically. I have to open Windows contacts each and every time
and copy it to the email

 

[mac]

When I start an email by typing in the name of the recipients, who are
all in my address book; the address of the person does not come up
automatically. I have to open Windows contacts each and every time
and copy it to the email

This is by design in WM, it only uses auto-complete for the previous 29
addresses used, it does not auto-complete for the entire Contact list.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

That is known as the auto-complete function.
Windows Mail does not auto-complete from your contacts.
It uses a separate list of the last 29 recipients you've sent mail to.

The auto-complete feature works perfectly in the replacement
program, Windows Live Mail, which uses the standard contacts list
for auto-completion.
You are encouraged to upgrade to the newer WLM program:

http://download.live.com/wlmail

 

[golfngillie]

Can I keep my old email address in WLM?
I got this new computer and have had trouble with contacts. Got contacts
over now but not connected to "send to". After the ease of use of Windows
Mail the I find Hotmail or Live Mail confusing.

 

[mac]

Gary, somehow, I think that I said exactly that, 5 hours earlier?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

For the most part, yes. However, I feel that the OP should be informed
of the option to upgrade to WLM in order to get away from that
WM limitation for good. I could have truncated my standard boilerplate
response to say only that, but I must have been feeling lazy.