Contacts - Auto-complete only works for a few contacts in my list

For some reason the auto complete feature in the "to" field (or CC, BCC)
isn't working with many of my contacts. The list was imported from Outlook
express on an old computer running XP

you need to type the first 3 characters of the name.
also WM uses a separate list of last 29 addresses used.



mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com



"Toddchuk" <Toddchuk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FDB075F1-75A4-4004-AF68-688C953A4A2E@microsoft.com...
For some reason the auto complete feature in the "to" field (or CC, BCC)
isn't working with many of my contacts. The list was imported from Outlook
express on an old computer running XP

Yes, and after three characters, still not there. I have over a hundred
names in my contacts...Will WM only auto complete for 29?? Outlook express
did it for ALL of my contacts.

"mikeyhsd" wrote:

> you need to type the first 3 characters of the name.
> also WM uses a separate list of last 29 addresses used.
>
>
>
> mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com
>
>
>
> "Toddchuk" <Toddchuk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FDB075F1-75A4-4004-AF68-688C953A4A2E@microsoft.com...
> For some reason the auto complete feature in the "to" field (or CC, BCC)
> isn't working with many of my contacts. The list was imported from Outlook
> express on an old computer running XP

Switch to the newer Windows Live Mail. It works better, particularly in
this regard.


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"Toddchuk" <Toddchuk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9EBC1C9C-A97A-41E7-A7B9-40F6C56D100E@microsoft.com...
> Yes, and after three characters, still not there. I have over a hundred
> names in my contacts...Will WM only auto complete for 29?? Outlook
> express
> did it for ALL of my contacts.
>
> "mikeyhsd" wrote:
>
>> you need to type the first 3 characters of the name.
>> also WM uses a separate list of last 29 addresses used.
>>
>>
>>
>> mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com
>>
>>
>>
>> "Toddchuk" <Toddchuk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:FDB075F1-75A4-4004-AF68-688C953A4A2E@microsoft.com...
>> For some reason the auto complete feature in the "to" field (or CC,
>> BCC)
>> isn't working with many of my contacts. The list was imported from
>> Outlook
>> express on an old computer running XP

yeah only for the LAST 29 you have used.

WHY , have no idea.
probably one of the foreign programmers they hired could not count any higher than that in english.




mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com



"Toddchuk" <Toddchuk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9EBC1C9C-A97A-41E7-A7B9-40F6C56D100E@microsoft.com...
Yes, and after three characters, still not there. I have over a hundred
names in my contacts...Will WM only auto complete for 29?? Outlook express
did it for ALL of my contacts.

"mikeyhsd" wrote:

> you need to type the first 3 characters of the name.
> also WM uses a separate list of last 29 addresses used.
>
>
>
> mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com
>
>
>
> "Toddchuk" <Toddchuk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FDB075F1-75A4-4004-AF68-688C953A4A2E@microsoft.com...
> For some reason the auto complete feature in the "to" field (or CC, BCC)
> isn't working with many of my contacts. The list was imported from Outlook
> express on an old computer running XP