When I start an email by typing in the name of the recipients, who are
all in my address book; the address of the person does not come up
automatically. I have to open Windows contacts each and every time
and copy it to the email

"peewee" <petpark@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:beab5e46-bb2f-4d98-8ff8-c4b1a60e39da@xxxxxx

> When I start an email by typing in the name of the recipients, who are
> all in my address book; the address of the person does not come up
> automatically. I have to open Windows contacts each and every time
> and copy it to the email

This is by design in WM, it only uses auto-complete for the previous 29
addresses used, it does not auto-complete for the entire Contact list.


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Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. MAIL. [DTS] UK.
http://www.getsafeonline.org/

That is known as the auto-complete function.
Windows Mail does not auto-complete from your contacts.
It uses a separate list of the last 29 recipients you've sent mail to.

The auto-complete feature works perfectly in the replacement
program, Windows Live Mail, which uses the standard contacts list
for auto-completion.
You are encouraged to upgrade to the newer WLM program:

http://download.live.com/wlmail

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"peewee" <petpark@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:beab5e46-bb2f-4d98-8ff8-c4b1a60e39da@xxxxxx

> When I start an email by typing in the name of the recipients, who are
> all in my address book; the address of the person does not come up
> automatically. I have to open Windows contacts each and every time
> and copy it to the email

Can I keep my old email address in WLM?
I got this new computer and have had trouble with contacts. Got contacts
over now but not connected to "send to". After the ease of use of Windows
Mail the I find Hotmail or Live Mail confusing.
--
Von


"Gary VanderMolen" wrote:

> That is known as the auto-complete function.
> Windows Mail does not auto-complete from your contacts.
> It uses a separate list of the last 29 recipients you've sent mail to.
>
> The auto-complete feature works perfectly in the replacement
> program, Windows Live Mail, which uses the standard contacts list
> for auto-completion.
> You are encouraged to upgrade to the newer WLM program:
>
> http://download.live.com/wlmail
>
> --
> Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)
>
>
> "peewee" <petpark@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:beab5e46-bb2f-4d98-8ff8-c4b1a60e39da@xxxxxx

> > When I start an email by typing in the name of the recipients, who are
> > all in my address book; the address of the person does not come up
> > automatically. I have to open Windows contacts each and every time
> > and copy it to the email

>

Gary, somehow, I think that I said exactly that, 5 hours earlier?

--
Regards Steve.

For the most part, yes. However, I feel that the OP should be informed
of the option to upgrade to WLM in order to get away from that
WM limitation for good. I could have truncated my standard boilerplate
response to say only that, but I must have been feeling lazy. :-)

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


" mac" <macknever@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uW1UpmjEKHA.1488@xxxxxx

> Gary, somehow, I think that I said exactly that, 5 hours earlier?
>
> --
> Regards Steve.
>
>