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Outlook 2000 Auto complete e-mail adresses

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by mishell.spolar

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I have Outlook 2000 on my home computer and on my work computer. When I am at work, my Outlook guesses the address that I am starting to write and it saves me a lot of time. My Outlook at home does not do this and the help section does not even recognize the question. I have looked for answers on the internet with no luck. Does anyone know how I can set my settings to autocomplete the e-mail addresses?
I am running windows XP on both.

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by jianlau

Auto-complete stores all the email addresses that you typed into the TO field from previous emails. There's no easy way to create that list, and it's an option that you can just turn on. Moreover, it's not looking up from the contact database either.

by sgt_shultz

here is a snippet about it from the mskb at support.microsoft.com

AutoComplete is a feature of Internet Explorer and of Outlook Express. However, it is not available in Outlook 2000. Outlook 2000 uses a method called Name Resolution. This feature of Outlook 2000 resolves the name you are typing or searches through your Contacts list to provide you with the correct e-mail name. To use this feature, follow these steps: 1. In Outlook 2000, open a new message.
2. Type the first three letters of an e-mail address that is stored in one of your contacts.
3. On the Tools menu, click Check Name.
You can also use the Check Name toolbar button (the one that has a red check mark and a picture of a person) or press CTRL+K.

If you have more than one listing of a particular name, the name you type will have a red wavy line below it. Right-click the name, and then click the correct name. The next time you compose a message to that person, the name should resolve successfully, but it will have a dashed underline instead of a solid underline.

Microsoft Outlook 2002 includes the AutoComplete feature.

by mishell.spolar

THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO REPLY. YOUR SUGGESTION WILL HELP SPEED THINGS UP. I AM ONLY SURPRISED BECAUSE MY OUTLOOK AT WORK IS 2000. OH WELL THANK YOU AGAIN.
MISHELL

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