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About Nancy Janyszeski
Expertise
Creating,sending, receiving e-mail, scheduling calendar items, tasks, using the journal, recurring appointments, default settings, Including Office 2007.

Experience
I currently teach Microsoft Office 2003 and Office 2007, plus FrontPage and HTML at our Vocational Schools .

I am Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) Master Certified and was certified as a MOUS Authorized Instructor. Instructional design and test writer for ActivTest, a division of Activ Training

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Microsoft Outlook - Outlook Autofill

Expert: Nancy Janyszeski - 11/6/2009

Question
My question kind of goes with a previous question from someone else....
<i>previous question</i>
it's my understanding when moving to a new computer you loose your email addresses in the To: autocomplete. Is there any way to bring them over or do you just rebuild it again.

<i>my question - </i>
On my old computer I have found all the autocomplete email addresses that are not in the contacts located in custom.dic I copied that folder from the old computer and replaced the custom.dic folder in the new computer. They are all there but when I start to type the name/email in a new outlook email, they don't autofill.

The box is checked in the Tools- Options- Email Options- Advanced Email Options- Suggest names while completing...

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Answer
Linda, if you import your contacts from the old computer to the new computer the addresses will autocomplete.

From the File menu >/Export > To file > *.pst

From the new computer you Import into Contacts

You will have to either do this through a network or flash drive

On a new installation the autocomplete does not always show up immediately. Complete the message and click on send, the names should fill in.

Nancy

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