Microsoft outlook autofill email address not working

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Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit 5 people found this reply helpful. Never mind WLM did not require you to first choose the email address from a separate pop up. For heavy email users who know their contact list, it will take me at least times of using the pop up to get all of the address to autocomplete.

That is a needless clicks and popups. However, as a workaround, I decided to copy all my contacts into a TO: field once, and now they are all Auto-Completing without me having to wait to choose them! No thanks to the program but to a bit ingenuity fooling the program into thinking I had used all my contacts in an email at least once.

I checked in the internet the different suggestions - nothing helped. It works as designed. The autcomplete feature remembers the most recent addresses to which you've send messages. It does not reference your contacts in any way and never has. I just upgraded my version of Outlook from to and also had problems with AutoComplete not working.

I was using Outlook The configuration I ended up with which is what I wanted retained my old emails and all my folders that were stored locally in a pst file. I have been using this setup for a few days and the only thing that I couldn't get working was AutoComplete.

No matter what I tried it would not remember the addresses. I finally fixed it today. What had happened was that my old pst file was set as the default under data files rather than the new IMAP account. Switching the defaults got AutoComplete working. However in the process I lost all of the entries in the address book.

Luckily I had exported them to a. To populate the now working AutoComplete file with all of the addresses from the imported address book, I used the trick I found elsewhere. With the top name in the address book highlighted scroll down to the bottom entry and hold the shift key and select the bottom entry.

Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Thank you for coming back to me, the version I am using is Outlook. I can't tell you if the issue is only specific to my account I have had the account for nearly 20 years going back to when it was hotmail. I suppose if any other Outlook. Typing a letter will open a list of Frequently used contacts. It does not show your saved contacts. Up until recently when I typed the 1st letter of any contact that was saved it would show them as a possibility to include in the address bar along with any other contact starting with that letter.

So it was inclusive of saved contacts, at the moment I get nothing pop up saved or frequently used. It just pops up with a box saying search people with a magnifying glass next to it and then when you click on it it says 'no match can be found'.

Before if I clicked on this as well it would bring up a list from my saved contacts. In Outlook. These are mail addresses that you don't have in you address book but have sent mail previously.

For us to make sure of everything, we suggest that you try to export and import your contacts. Check out the links below for the steps:. Export contacts from Outlook. Import contacts to Outlook. Thank you for your reply, sadly the export contacts option is only available for Outlook , , , and these are not the versions that I have, i am using Outlook.

Just for clarification, I understand what you are saying about the suggested contacts being addresses you have e-mailed and not saved which yes they did use to pop up on typing a 1st letter but the saved contacts also did.

When you click on To or the Cc button and start typing the name of contacts, will the list of suggested contacts appear? When I click the To or CC button and start typing the name of contacts no suggested contacts appear its just blank. We appreciate your effort to provide us details about your issue. For better assistance, we will appreciate if you can answer the following questions:.

In the meantime, check the Service Health status of Outlook. Sam Mummery. Hi, I used to type the 1st letter of an e-mail address or contact in the TO, CC or BCC bar and all the addresses that matched that from my saved contacts used to pop up for me to choose from Autocomplete it is not doing that now at all now? The old way of suggesting the contact by typing the 1st letter of a contacts name used to work for me for many years and now has suddenly stopped working and has not been for the last few months.

I have tried logging to Outlook. We recommend installing Restoro, a tool that will scan your machine and identify what the fault is. Click here to download and start repairing. You might need to turn off some add-ins to fix Outlook autofill email address. You can turn off Outlook add-ins as follows. Safe mode is not working? You can reset AutoComplete by clearing its cache. The RoamCache folder includes the AutoComplete cache. You can reset that cache by editing the RoamCache folder as follows.

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One of the best clients to use instead of Outlook has got to be Mailbird. Besides being a full-fledged email client, Outlook can also be used as a personal information manager. Commenting as. Not you? Save information for future comments. Like most email clients, Outlook has an autofill option to help with writing email addresses. The guide below will help you with advice when the autofill feature doesn't work.