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Stop Auto Fill-in

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Here's how to stop Outlook from automatically filling in the e-mail address when typing the name of a contact in the To: field.

Outlook's Suggest Names feature helps speed up routine e-mail activities. However you may want to get rid of it when, for instance, you have two or more e-mail addresses that are similar and Outlook keeps choosing the wrong one.

To turn this feature off:

Select Options from Outlook's Tools menu
Click on the Preferences tab
Clickthe E-mail Options button
Click the Advanced E-mail Options button
Uncheck the box, near the bottom of the dialog, labeled:
"Suggest names while completing To, Cc, and Bcc fields"

Also see:

Office Clues:
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Sarnia, Ontario
Using Outlook's AutoComplete feature

From Slipstick.com:
Suggest names doesn't work?

If Auto Suggest and name checking is not working, rename the *.NK2 file. Outlook will create a new one. You can rename or delete the NK2 file if you want to get rid of all addresses in your autocomplete file.

[Edited entry from 5/14/2005]

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<Doug Klippert@ 1:34 AM

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