Configuring preferences and options in Outlook.com
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Has this ever been resolved??
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I previously mis-spelled an email address when sending a message .... and now, that mis-spelled address is displayed in the auto-complete list each time I begin to type the correct email address.
This is NOT an issue with my contact list ... I do not have a contact defined for this address.
I do have this option enabled: Give suggestions for anyone I've communicated with (contacts and non-contacts) and I want to keep that option enabled. I realize that I could select this option: Only suggest people in my contact list, and the mis-spelled address would not appear in the auto-complete list .... but I want the auto-complete function to give suggestions from both contacts and non-contacts.
What I am looking for is the ability to delete one entry from the non-contact addresses that are maintained by the auto-complete feature. Can this be done in Outlook.com??
Configuring preferences and options in Outlook.com
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Langware-
Has this ever been resolved??
Thanks for your response.
I'll post this issue in Feedback as you suggest.
jimmyv4351,
Outlook developers do not follow these forums ... so they never see our comments.
The Microsoft engaged Forum Moderators (who do sometimes respond here) do not actually work for Microsoft. They work for the company that Microsoft has contracted to run these forums. They can answer "how to" questions, but do not have any way of fixing bugs.
I suggest that you follow these steps to report this problem to Microsoft developers. Unfortunately, following these steps and reporting the problem does not guarantee that Microsoft will ever fix this problem. This thread was started 13 months ago .... and Microsoft has been ignoring this problem for at least that long. But the more people who report this problem, the more likely Microsoft might fix it. Here are the steps:
Perhaps Satya will change things ... we can always try sending an email to him!
Thanks for this hint. It works, however, it defeats the purpose of Outlook.com maintaining a list of email addresses not in Contacts, which is to aid you in sending emails to people you've previously contacted, yet, who you haven't felt it worth putting into your Contacts yet.
The ability to delete addresses from this list by pressing the delete button when they were highlighted (or by clicking on the 'X' when one was displayed) used to work in Outlook.com. It no longer does. This is a regression and thus should be a high priority for development. It should also be noted that this is the way the feature behaved in prior implementations of Outlook (non web versions).
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- Sign in to your account using this link.
- Click the Cog icon then choose More mail settings
- Under Customizing Outlook, select Advanced privacy settings
- Choose Only suggest people in my contact list under Auto-complete suggestions
- Click Save
Note: Please ensure that the email address that you want to remove from the To field is not in your contacts.
I have the exact same problem. Also running W7 fully updated on 2 computers w/IE 11 and Chrome. The way to delete contacts described used to work as described. It no longer does. Please fix!!!!