Getting contact info to show in the "To:" field

[Johnny]

When I would start to type in someone's last name their contact info that
was in my address book would show up. I had to reinstall outlook 03 on my pc
and now when i type their first or last name none of the info from contacts
would appear. If I send an email to someone outlook will remember that email
address. All i have to do is type in the first couple of letters and that
address will show. I rather not have it like that and go back to typing in
the last name and have their info show.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Your post is unclear. We have no idea where you are typing.
All autocompletion data is lost when you create a new profile. It will only
be repopulated as you send messages unless you make the effort to migrate
your former autocompletion cache.

 

[Johnny]

Russ,

Let me try to explain again what is going on. Prior to my reinstallation of
Outlook 2003, when I would begin to type in the last name of a person in the
"To:" the information from my address book would appear similar to
autocomplete. For example, if i typed "Valen" autocomplete would pop up and
show "Russ Valentine <[email protected]>". After reinstalling Outlook 2003
the autocomplete is empty. Let say I sent an email to
"(e-mail address removed)" and this email address is in my address book
associated with John Doe. Now when I type Doe or John nothing shows up in
autocomplete. When I type the letter "J" autocomplte does will show
"(e-mail address removed)" instead of "John Doe
<[email protected]>". Ok hope this makes sense now.

Thanks,

J

Your post is unclear. We have no idea where you are typing.
All autocompletion data is lost when you create a new profile. It will
only be repopulated as you send messages unless you make the effort to
migrate your former autocompletion cache.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

When I would start to type in someone's last name their contact info that
was in my address book would show up. I had to reinstall outlook 03 on my
pc and now when i type their first or last name none of the info from
contacts would appear. If I send an email to someone outlook will
remember that email address. All i have to do is type in the first couple
of letters and that address will show. I rather not have it like that and
go back to typing in the last name and have their info show.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Let me try to explain again what is going on. Prior to my
reinstallation of Outlook 2003, when I would begin to type in the
last name of a person in the "To:" the information from my address
book would appear similar to autocomplete. For example, if i typed
"Valen" autocomplete would pop up and show "Russ Valentine
<[email protected]>". After reinstalling Outlook 2003 the
autocomplete is empty.

Correct, if you've created a new mail profile.

Let say I sent an email to
"(e-mail address removed)" and this email address is in my address
book associated with John Doe. Now when I type Doe or John nothing
shows up in autocomplete

Correct. Autocompletion is not connected with your Contacts in any way
whatsoever.

When I type the letter "J" autocomplte does
will show "(e-mail address removed)" instead of "John Doe
<[email protected]>". Ok hope this makes sense now.

Most likely because you entered the address manually the first time you sent
a messge to that address after reinstalling instead of choosing it from your
Contacts folder.