Automatic Recipient Recognition

[Cori]

Using my Microsoft Outlook account: When I type a
recipient's name in the To section, I want Outlook to
automatically recognize the person that I am sending the
email to after I type the first couple letters of the
recipient's name. I know that others have it set up that
way I just do not know how...PLEASE HELP ME!

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

Answered in microsoft.public.outlook.contacts.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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[Cori]

Thank you for telling me how I can get the answer but I
can not get to "microsoft.public.outlook.contacts." how do
I get there?
Thank you soooo much for helping me!

 

[Vanguard]

Thank you for telling me how I can get the answer but I
can not get to "microsoft.public.outlook.contacts." how do
I get there?
Thank you soooo much for helping me!

My guess from the "X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000" header
in your post is that you are using a web-based newsgroup service. I
haven't used those other than http://groups.google.com so I'm probably
not familiar with whatever web interface you are using. Jocelyn's reply
probably assumed that your news server or web-based service carried the
the other newsgroup -- especially since YOU did post in that other
newsgroup. If your news server doesn't carry that news group, connect
to Microsoft's news server (news.microsoft.com). If your web-based
newsgroup provider doesn't carry that other group, use Google Groups
since they do carry it (http://snurl.com/277h). Or just use whatever
you used before to post to that other newsgroup. Apparently you
scattered your same question across lots of newsgroups; besides this one
here in this newsgroup and the one in the "*.contacts" newsgroup, you
also posted separately in the microsoft.public.outlook newsgroup. So
how many newsgroups did you post the same but separate copy of your
message? In each one, you have a disconnected thread asking the same
question.

When posting to multiple newsgroups, it is considered polite to
cross-post; i.e., list each newsgroup to which you send your post. That
way your one post gets linked across all those newsgroups. Responses in
one newsgroup will show up in the other newsgroups, you don't end up
with separate and disconnected conversations, and users in one newsgroup
can see what replies have already been made in the other newsgroup so if
your question has already been answered then responders don't waste time
posting a duplicated answer.

 

[Nikki Peterson \(MVP - Outlook\)]

XCLN: Summary of Nickname Features in Different Versions of Outlook
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;245421

1.. Open a new message.
2.. In the To field, type an ambiguous name. For example, if you have
Franklin Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt in your global address list, you
can type "roosevelt" (without the quotation marks).
3.. Press the TAB key to move the cursor out of the To field.
4.. With AutoNameCheck turned on, this name does not resolve, and you see
a wavy red line underneath what you typed in. Right-click the text in the To
field, and a sub-menu with possible matches appears. Click the one you want
to resolve the name to.
You have just created a nickname file. The next time you type in this
ambiguous name, it will resolve to the name that you selected from the list.
When it resolves from the nickname file, it will have a green dashed
underline (instead of a solid black underline). This is your indication that
the name was resolved by the nickname file.

Nikki