Can't select contact in Mail

I cannot get a contact to appear when I hit the "To" button on my Windows
Mail program. It was working fine earlier. Any suggestions?

"shellfishseller" <shellfishseller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>I cannot get a contact to appear when I hit the "To" button on my Windows
> Mail program. It was working fine earlier. Any suggestions?

The list it gets addresses from when you hit To is not the Contacts list,
it is a separate list of addresses you sent the last 29 messages to. If
you didn't send them a message in the last 29, they won't appear.

If you want to see the whole Contacts list instead, start a message,
and in the new message box, click on Tools and then Select Recipients.

uh, Robert, you're talking about the auto-complete...where you just start
typing an email address..
Clicking on the To: button should bring up a box with all the contacts and
groups in it.


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<robertmiles@bellsouthNOSPAM.net> wrote in message
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> "shellfishseller" <shellfishseller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:785FE167-4518-40CA-A1AC-CC6CA5A69369@microsoft.com...
>>I cannot get a contact to appear when I hit the "To" button on my Windows
>> Mail program. It was working fine earlier. Any suggestions?
>
> The list it gets addresses from when you hit To is not the Contacts list,
> it is a separate list of addresses you sent the last 29 messages to. If
> you didn't send them a message in the last 29, they won't appear.
>
> If you want to see the whole Contacts list instead, start a message,
> and in the new message box, click on Tools and then Select Recipients.
>

What Dave says is my problem. Clicking the "To" Button brings up a warning of
unable to choose recipient.
"Dave" wrote:

> uh, Robert, you're talking about the auto-complete...where you just start
> typing an email address..
> Clicking on the To: button should bring up a box with all the contacts and
> groups in it.
>
>
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> <robertmiles@bellsouthNOSPAM.net> wrote in message
> news:uuRGDgnSIHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> >
> > "shellfishseller" <shellfishseller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > message news:785FE167-4518-40CA-A1AC-CC6CA5A69369@microsoft.com...
> >>I cannot get a contact to appear when I hit the "To" button on my Windows
> >> Mail program. It was working fine earlier. Any suggestions?
> >
> > The list it gets addresses from when you hit To is not the Contacts list,
> > it is a separate list of addresses you sent the last 29 messages to. If
> > you didn't send them a message in the last 29, they won't appear.
> >
> > If you want to see the whole Contacts list instead, start a message,
> > and in the new message box, click on Tools and then Select Recipients.
> >
>

I don't know what's causing that.
Can you open the Contacts folder, and right-click on a contact, select
Action - Send email


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"shellfishseller" <shellfishseller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> What Dave says is my problem. Clicking the "To" Button brings up a warning
> of
> unable to choose recipient.
> "Dave" wrote:
>
>> uh, Robert, you're talking about the auto-complete...where you just start
>> typing an email address..
>> Clicking on the To: button should bring up a box with all the contacts
>> and
>> groups in it.
>>
>>
>> --
>> http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview
>>
>> <robertmiles@bellsouthNOSPAM.net> wrote in message
>> news:uuRGDgnSIHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> >
>> > "shellfishseller" <shellfishseller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> > message news:785FE167-4518-40CA-A1AC-CC6CA5A69369@microsoft.com...
>> >>I cannot get a contact to appear when I hit the "To" button on my
>> >>Windows
>> >> Mail program. It was working fine earlier. Any suggestions?
>> >
>> > The list it gets addresses from when you hit To is not the Contacts
>> > list,
>> > it is a separate list of addresses you sent the last 29 messages to.
>> > If
>> > you didn't send them a message in the last 29, they won't appear.
>> >
>> > If you want to see the whole Contacts list instead, start a message,
>> > and in the new message box, click on Tools and then Select Recipients.
>> >
>>