How to delete one mis-spelled email address from auto-complete list

Anonymous
2012-12-18T01:03:01+00:00

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??

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-06-03T12:53:34+00:00

    No.  They clearly don't care and provide no understanding or acknowledgement of the problem.  I just checked and it still doesn't work.  The problem is that they are keeping a log of every address you ever used and then those addresses come up in the search box no matter what features you enable or disable and no matter what caches you clean out.  They have the data and they won't give it up.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-06-04T03:15:37+00:00

    Has this ever been resolved??

    No ... this issue has not been resolved.

    There are several other threads that also discuss this same issue. Here is one you may want to read (and then follow the link in that thread to post feedback for Microsoft):

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail-ocompose/delete-auto-complete-wrong-entries-leave-feedback/db3eb405-5cc6-4e59-a13d-48f34649e71c

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-06-29T08:32:47+00:00

    Nope. I've been trying to delete an email address too. I read through most of this thread and found all answers useless since a cross doesn't appear, and I don't want to not have auto-complete since I will loose non contacts addresses (business and work related).

    It needs to be sorted. I didn't like Outlook when it first took over hotmail. I still don't like it now. It is so user-unfriendly.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-07-01T02:34:53+00:00

    Becca321:

    The outlook developers who can fix this issue do not follow this forum.

    Please post a feedback response here:  https://feedback.live.com/default.aspx?productkey=wlnewmail&scrx=1

    ... and ask that the developers provide the necessary features to manage the auto-complete list (add, delete, chage an entry).

    Also, see this site for more information about this problem:

    http://www.dorsetdog.com/outlook-com-delete-auto-complete-entries

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