Where do Outlook's auto-complete suggestions come from?

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I cannot seem to find a solution for my out look 2000 from automatically changing the send address to my home email address when I send and email to myself at work.

Both accounts are brian deller.

Do you have any suggestions?

I have window xp pro.

This article may help: http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_send_mail_from_my_mail_forwarded_address.html

This was helpful -- but is there any way to make use of the nickname field when doing something along the lines of auto-completion/check names?

Not sure what you're asking.

Thanks for your help. I was searching in Outlook Help in deleting nicknames. Actually I didn't know they were nicknames, I thought they were suggested names. I needed to delete some that were typed in error, and others I didn't want popping up. You gave me the answer with this

By the way, deleting an address from the nickname list is also very easy: when you see it being suggested, use the up or down arrow keys to highlight it, and then press delete.

Thanks Again,

There is a shareware program called "Owtlook". This allows one to edit the .NK2 file (which stores autocomplete data in Outlook) directly.

I would like the nickname list and my address book to be synced (update my address book using the NK2 file contents, and vice versa). Do you know of a way to do that?

I'm pleased to find your explanation of the nickname file, and the auto completion function in Outlook. I can't find this function documented anywhere in the 875-page *Using Outlook 2002* book I've been using.

However, when I use it to find a name in my Contacts file to which I frequently send e-mail, it doesn't "stick." That is, I have to Ctrl-K EVERY time. Even though I send e-mail to this person FAR more often than any of the auto completion suggestions that come up, this person from my Contacts file never gets added to the nicknames, or is never suggested. What gives? Are names in a Contacts file treated differently than names in an Address Book?

Very good article! Just one more question. What field does Ctrl+K look for. It seems that it only looks for the last name field and ignores the "File As" field. Can this be changed? So that it looks for the File As instead?
Thanks again

There's no way to change it, that I'm aware of. Sorry. :-(

My wife is using Office 2000 and we can't find how to switch on Outlook email name autocomplete. Its not in Advanced Email options as in 2002. I can't remember if it wasn't there at all in Office 2000

Thanks

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