Outlook 2003: I cannot see email ids in Address Book, appears mt

[Marnie Juel Shaw]

When I create a new email and start typing in an email id, e.g., 'c...', a
list of possible email ids beginning with, say, 'c' pops up. Presumably,
these are from an address book, automatically populated by sending and
receiving emails. But I cannot find any such list of email ids anywhere.
When I go into Address Book, no matter which Address Book I select, no
entries appear. The Address Book appears to be entirely empty. Please help
me find where this list of automatically created emails is stored and how I
can access it and correct it and so on. Thank you.

Sincerely, Marnie Juel Shaw

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

It's a list of people you've sent mail to in the past. Outlook provides no interface to make corrections, but you can delete any entry when it pops up.

Do you want help in fixing your empty address book? If so, please use the Tools | Email Accounts interface to look at the address books you have installed. If you do not see the Outlook Address Book, add it.

 

[Tim]

I don't believe there is such a list. What you are seeing is Outlook simply
remembering addresses you have used in the past. It's much like IE's history
feature. I'm sure it's cached somewhere but probably not in a user
accessible format...at least not one that I have run across.

Tim

 

[Marnie Juel Shaw]

Thank you, Tim and Sue. It is amazing to me that it is possible to get help
from people like this (like you). I appreciate it. Sincerely, Marnie Shaw

 

[Roy Sprunger]

Where is the benefit in creating a list, then denying users the ability to
edit the list?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Where is the benefit in creating a list, then denying users the
ability to edit the list?

You can edit the list. As Sue said, you can delete any entry it contains by
selecting it and pressing delete. You can add to it easily as well by
putting an address in a recipieint field of a new message then pressing
Ctrl-K or clicking Check Names. Adding and deleting are editing. Ergo, you
can edit the list. You can't edit within the entries, however.

 

[Roy Sprunger]

Brian,

I beg to differ. Perhaps it is semantics.

Sure, you can add and delete individual entries of the list, but you cannot
edit the list as a whole unit.

To reiterate my question,


Where is the benefit in creating a list, then denying users the ability to
edit the list, as a whole unit?


Adding and deleting individual items is not the same as editing the whole
list. Agree or disagree?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I beg to differ. Perhaps it is semantics.

Clearly. I use standard English. The word "edit" means "alter or adapt".
Adding and deleting list entries are alterations, are they not? Ergo,
adding and removing entries is editing the list.

Sure, you can add and delete individual entries of the list, but you
cannot edit the list as a whole unit.

What is it you would seek to do? Are you looking to change every single
entry in the list? That, to me, would be "editing the list as a whole".