Express to Outlook

[ysnnim]

Over weekend upgraded from Outlook Express to Outlook. Only issue is that now when I type an email address in outlook, I have to type the whole address - it has not 'remembered' any of my email contacts. In the contacts section of Outlook there are a bunch of contacts that have been exported - however for some reason it is not allowing me to type the first few letters of their address and the rest is 'autofilled'. Any ideas..?

[victormeldrew]

What version of Outlook? Unlike other office apps there is a lot of difference between versions.

However, that seems to be the way it works. Intellisense will remember email addresses, but once you have used them, but to start with you will have to type a few letters of the name then click the Check Names icon on the toolbar (the bust with a tick next to it)

[ysnnim]

Outlook 2003....

[victormeldrew]

That's what I use, and it works as described above. It won't autofill until you've used the contact at least once. There is no way of altering this behaviour. For info it maintains a .nk2 file with the addresses you've used already, and that is the only thing the it uses for autofill. You'll want to know that if/when you move to Outlook 2007, if you don't want this pain again!

[ysnnim]

Ahhhh....dear old Microsoft...

That makes (microsoft) sense then...

Cheers

D

[Globulator]

I always thought Outlook Express was much superior to Outlook office

Try Mozilla Thunderbird too - that has very good migration features from Outlook and should deal correctly with the address book.

In addition Thunderbird can actually edit HTML properly - something Outlook Office uses Word to do - which sadly can't seem to cope with HTML formatting in many instances..