Outlook 2016 Auto-Complete for Contact Groups Not Working

Anonymous
2017-10-22T23:34:21+00:00

Split from this thread.

Thanks to both of you for your replies and the information about how auto-complete works.  I understand the feature better now.  So it looks like even if I send an email to a group, auto-complete does not remember the group for a subsequent email.  Auto-complete works fine for individual addresses, just not for groups.

We are using Office 365 Pro Plus Version 1707, Build 8326.2073.  Someone else here using 365 (V1707, slightly later Build) does not have this issue with auto-complete remembering groups.  This is not a huge problem (costs me an extra click), but it's odd that this used to work and now it does not.  The same time that group auto-complete stopped working, the order of my address books also changed - moving my local contacts below the global contact list.  This may be completely unrelated, though.

If you have any other ideas about what may be causing group auto-complete to not work on my PC, I would appreciate those.  Otherwise, thank you again for your responses - and the auto-complete education!

Paul

Hi there,

I have this issue as well.  Autocomplete DID work with distribution lists in Outlook 2010.  So this is another handy feature that Microsoft has removed in 2016/365?

Thank you!

Connie

Office 365 ProPlus Version 1700, Build 8431.2079

Outlook | Windows | Classic Outlook for Windows | For home

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Anonymous
2017-11-14T03:13:13+00:00

Hi All,

I want to inform you that we are definitely looking into this issue. It is currently being investigated, and we will update you as soon as we have a possible resolution for this issue. For now, you can pick up the local contact group from the address book or roll back to the earlier version via https://support.microsoft.com/en-sg/help/2770432/how-to-revert-to-an-earlier-version-of-office-2013-or-office-2016-clic

I apologize for any inconvenience caused by this issue, and do appreciate your patience and understanding.

Best Regards,

Erick

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    2017-11-21T03:02:28+00:00

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-21T15:44:23+00:00

    Please update micro soft world

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-11-22T00:18:01+00:00

    I'm having this problem too and would also like a response when the problem has been rectified. 

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    Thank you.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-11-22T09:41:30+00:00

    A short term fix to this issue is to 'Run' Outlook in Safe Mode - 'Outlook /Safe', once Outlook has opened in Safe Mode immediately close and re-open the application normally. Contact Groups should now be visible once more within the auto-complete, this however is only a short-term fix and eventually the issue does re-occur - awaiting a full update/fix from Microsoft.

    Liam

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