How can I clear email-address from Search field for Outlook People?

Anonymous
2019-08-06T18:11:57+00:00

I have sent/received a couple of emails to/from some people who are not in my Hotmail-People Contacts list (even those emails have been deleted a while ago). Now if I type their email address into People Search field - the email will show up there.

How can I clear this search cache, thus email-addresses (which are not in my Contacts and that does not have any corresponding emails anymore) will not show up in the Search?

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-09-09T11:05:19+00:00

    My question was HOW DO I DELETE OLD CONTACTS FROM MY OUTLOOK'S MEMORY ...they are no longer in my CONTACTS list ...but when I come to do an email they appear as soon as I enter the first letter of their address ...I know I can remove them by clicking 'x' against their name for each particular email ...but why should I have to keep doing this everytime I do an email ...I want them to disappear once and for all ...PERIOD!

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-09-10T16:07:22+00:00

    I am with you Michael...  I want to delete folks and old email addresses that keep popping up.  Some I never "put" there...  Some are no longer valid emails.  Some are dead... 

    I want above indicated to DISAPPEAR ONCE AND FOR ALL...  TOO...

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-08-06T18:32:02+00:00

    Hi Peter and all, I do not see X next to the email-address showing up :( 

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-08-09T10:22:46+00:00

    Hi Peter and anyone at Microsoft listening

    I have entered the first letter of my daughter's current email address, but her old one, which is no longer in my contacts, keeps popping up also, so I have to check my contacts list to make sure I use her current one and not her old dead one. I press 'x' against the one I don't want and it disappears, but then reappears the next time I email her. This also happens for any other of my contacts who have changed their email addresses. 

    Is it not possible to be able to delete old, dead and unwanted email addresses from Outlook's 'autocomplete list' once and for all?

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-08-06T22:09:23+00:00

    Hi PeterFlynn4, this did not work either. This email-address (I do not want to appear anymore) will show up there every time I do search (i.e. enter first 3 letters). :(  

    Also it's for People of the Outlook.com (not for the Desktop Outlook app).

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