Vista - Inserting e-mail addresses automatically

Hi,

In the old Outlook Express 6.0, whenever I was composing an e-mail, I used
to be able to type just a few strokes of the addressee's e-mail address, and
somehow the rest of it would be automatically inserted.

I now find in VISTA, that this works for only some of the people I have in
my address book, but NOT FOR OTHERS. Any suggestions on how I can get ALL to
work properly?

ppeett

No fix is known. It just works that way....



"ppeett" <ppeett@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9616B99E-2DFD-485C-8A60-1CBE5D51E8B8@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> In the old Outlook Express 6.0, whenever I was composing an e-mail, I used
> to be able to type just a few strokes of the addressee's e-mail address,
> and
> somehow the rest of it would be automatically inserted.
>
> I now find in VISTA, that this works for only some of the people I have in
> my address book, but NOT FOR OTHERS. Any suggestions on how I can get ALL
> to
> work properly?
>
> ppeett

This function does not work very well in Windows Mail. This particular bug
and several others have been fixed in the new Windows Live Mail:
http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas

Gary VanderMolen

"ppeett" <ppeett@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9616B99E-2DFD-485C-8A60-1CBE5D51E8B8@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> In the old Outlook Express 6.0, whenever I was composing an e-mail, I used
> to be able to type just a few strokes of the addressee's e-mail address, and
> somehow the rest of it would be automatically inserted.
>
> I now find in VISTA, that this works for only some of the people I have in
> my address book, but NOT FOR OTHERS. Any suggestions on how I can get ALL to
> work properly?

It works for the last 25 or so that you sent to.

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"ppeett" <ppeett@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9616B99E-2DFD-485C-8A60-1CBE5D51E8B8@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> In the old Outlook Express 6.0, whenever I was composing an e-mail, I used
> to be able to type just a few strokes of the addressee's e-mail address,
> and
> somehow the rest of it would be automatically inserted.
>
> I now find in VISTA, that this works for only some of the people I have in
> my address book, but NOT FOR OTHERS. Any suggestions on how I can get ALL
> to
> work properly?
>
> ppeett

Gary, The OP is asking about Windows Mail. Your response was worthless. It's
not a bug, just doesn't work the way you would like. No different than
Office Outlook, the auto-completion works on the most often used e-mail
addresses.
"Gary VanderMolen" <gary@NoMail.invalid> wrote in message
news:ude8AUEvHHA.4332@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> This function does not work very well in Windows Mail. This particular bug
> and several others have been fixed in the new Windows Live Mail:
> http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas
>
> Gary VanderMolen
>
> "ppeett" <ppeett@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9616B99E-2DFD-485C-8A60-1CBE5D51E8B8@microsoft.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the old Outlook Express 6.0, whenever I was composing an e-mail, I
>> used
>> to be able to type just a few strokes of the addressee's e-mail address,
>> and
>> somehow the rest of it would be automatically inserted.
>>
>> I now find in VISTA, that this works for only some of the people I have
>> in
>> my address book, but NOT FOR OTHERS. Any suggestions on how I can get
>> ALL to
>> work properly?
>
>

Outlook has both auto-completion and auto-resolution, which complement
each other. Windows Mail's implementation is unpredictable and just
doesn't work very well. Guess what, it works well in Windows Live Mail!

As a longtime Microsoft beta tester I can assure you that I've been
working with Windows Mail a lot longer and more intensively than
you have. I know what I'm talking about.

Gary VanderMolen

"Charles W Davis" <Anthemwebs@lvcoxmail.com> wrote in message news:2B23455E-97B7-469E-891F-CEC3F8CD5529@microsoft.com...
> Gary, The OP is asking about Windows Mail. Your response was worthless. It's not a bug, just doesn't work the way you would
> like. No different than Office Outlook, the auto-completion works on the most often used e-mail addresses.
> "Gary VanderMolen" <gary@NoMail.invalid> wrote in message news:ude8AUEvHHA.4332@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> This function does not work very well in Windows Mail. This particular bug
>> and several others have been fixed in the new Windows Live Mail:
>> http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas
>>
>> Gary VanderMolen
>>
>> "ppeett" <ppeett@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9616B99E-2DFD-485C-8A60-1CBE5D51E8B8@microsoft.com...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In the old Outlook Express 6.0, whenever I was composing an e-mail, I used
>>> to be able to type just a few strokes of the addressee's e-mail address, and
>>> somehow the rest of it would be automatically inserted.
>>>
>>> I now find in VISTA, that this works for only some of the people I have in
>>> my address book, but NOT FOR OTHERS. Any suggestions on how I can get ALL to
>>> work properly?
>>
>>
>