Cannot delete a contact in Outlook

Same with mine.

same here

Howdy,

After losing most of my hair, I think I have finally figured this out. There are TWO types of contacts in outlook.

1. Contacts: these are the ones that you have personally added
2. Xontacts: (that is my name) These are "contacts" that are "added" when you either received or send email to an address that is not in your Contacts. In the olden days, I used to call "inventions" such as these, "Gatisms" after Bill Gates.

All the talk about maintaining contacts has been about Contacts. Unfortunately, anything you do with a Xontact will have varying, almost unpredictable, results.

I have discovered though, that if I take a Xontact and add it to my Contacts, I can actually delete it. It is a painful process, but it has enabled me to eliminate "suggested contacts" which are related to, but not necessariy the same as Xontacts. I was then able to cleanse my contact list.

Howdy,

After losing most of my hair, I think I have finally figured this out. There are TWO types of contacts in outlook.

1. Contacts: these are the ones that you have personally added
2. Xontacts: (that is my name) These are "contacts" that are "added" when you either received or send email to an address that is not in your Contacts. In the olden days, I used to call "inventions" such as these, "Gatisms" after Bill Gates.

All the talk about maintaining contacts has been about Contacts. Unfortunately, anything you do with a Xontact will have varying, almost unpredictable, results.

I have discovered though, that if I take a Xontact and add it to my Contacts, I can actually delete it. It is a painful process, but it has enabled me to eliminate "suggested contacts" which are related to, but not necessariy the same as Xontacts. I was then able to cleanse my contact list.

Can you go in abit more details how you exactly did that? Because I have some Xontacts I would love to get rid off on my outlook when I use the search function on it.

The world will be better if software companies are held to a higher standard. These clowns have no clue how their whole existence is built around creating frustrating experiences. No body cares. Shame on them.
Now to the point of eliminating suggested contacts.

To edit suggested contacts in Outlook, you can remove or hide a contact from the list:

1. Start typing the contact's name in the To: address line
2. Select the contact from the list of suggested contacts
3. Click the X icon to the right of the contact's name The contact will be removed from the list and hidden for future use. To unhide a contact, you can send an email to the contact within about 24 hours. You can also manage suggested recipients in Outlook by going to the Privacy page for your Microsoft account. Once there, you can:1. Scroll down to Privacy settings in our products
4. Select Expanded people suggestions
5. Set the toggle to Off I was able to follow the steps above and get rid of the personal email of my colleague from popping up in the company outlook, but now her official email is missing as well.

These large corporations do not have my well wishes, I hope one day all of these software engineers will get a taste of their own work ethic.......
It is so pathetic