Auto-Complete is a little touchy in OE. Some things you can try is to alter
the Display names. You will have to play around.

A 1-display for home, and a 2-display for work, may help. Otherwise, I would
just surest clicking the To button in front of the Address field and select
the address from there.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"GO" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I'm hoping someone here has a tip or trick to make Outlook Express' auto
complete for addresses behave a little more to my liking. For many of my
address book contacts I will have two entries for the same person, one is
their personal address and the other a work address. It seems that
regardless of what I have for the name/display name it will always choose
the work address when auto-completing (I had originally planned on just
adding a secondary email address in the contact itself but OE makes it
difficult to extract/use the address when needed). Are there any tips,
tricks or work arounds to get OE to select the "personal" address first?


TIA,

Greg

Hello,

I'm hoping someone here has a tip or trick to make Outlook Express' auto
complete for addresses behave a little more to my liking. For many of my
address book contacts I will have two entries for the same person, one is
their personal address and the other a work address. It seems that
regardless of what I have for the name/display name it will always choose
the work address when auto-completing (I had originally planned on just
adding a secondary email address in the contact itself but OE makes it
difficult to extract/use the address when needed). Are there any tips,
tricks or work arounds to get OE to select the "personal" address first?


TIA,

Greg

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for the speedy reply. I've played around with the display names
already but have had no luck as of yet. I appreciate your other two options
but neither are really practical. Prepending a '1' or '2' in front of the
contacts makes the auto-complete more awkward to use, and going to the
Address Book just adds needless steps. Granted they both would work, but
would still prefer someway to get my original idea to work. Are there any
guidelines/rules on how OE selects an address when you start typing in the
To field? As of now, I can't see a pattern.


Bruce Hagen wrote:
Auto-Complete is a little touchy in OE. Some things you can try is to
alter the Display names. You will have to play around.

A 1-display for home, and a 2-display for work, may help. Otherwise,
I would just surest clicking the To button in front of the Address
field and select the address from there.

"GO" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I'm hoping someone here has a tip or trick to make Outlook Express'
auto complete for addresses behave a little more to my liking. For
many of my address book contacts I will have two entries for the
same person, one is their personal address and the other a work
address. It seems that regardless of what I have for the
name/display name it will always choose the work address when
auto-completing (I had originally planned on just adding a
secondary email address in the contact itself but OE makes it
difficult to extract/use the address when needed). Are there any
tips, tricks or work arounds to get OE to select the "personal"
address first?


TIA,

Greg

I've just been playing around with the auto-complete and I may have
uncovered how it works. It appears that one (and primary) search path is
based on the age of the record/contact. That is, whatever contact was
created first will be the first to show up as the auto-complete entry.
Example: if I were to enter a contact "Bob (work)" and then a second entry
"Bob (home)", "Bob (work)" would show up first when I start entering "Bob"
in the To field. I'm assuming this is a result of how the Address Book
(.wab) file is stored. They are probably stored like a text file with new
entries at the bottom and when OE needs to query the address list it starts
from the top down. I'm not 100% sure on this but it certainly seems like
the case. Can anyone confirm this?


Greg


GO wrote:
Hi Bruce,

Thanks for the speedy reply. I've played around with the display
names already but have had no luck as of yet. I appreciate your
other two options but neither are really practical. Prepending a '1'
or '2' in front of the contacts makes the auto-complete more awkward
to use, and going to the Address Book just adds needless steps.
Granted they both would work, but would still prefer someway to get
my original idea to work. Are there any guidelines/rules on how OE
selects an address when you start typing in the To field? As of now,
I can't see a pattern.


Bruce Hagen wrote:
Auto-Complete is a little touchy in OE. Some things you can try is to
alter the Display names. You will have to play around.

A 1-display for home, and a 2-display for work, may help. Otherwise,
I would just surest clicking the To button in front of the Address
field and select the address from there.

"GO" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I'm hoping someone here has a tip or trick to make Outlook Express'
auto complete for addresses behave a little more to my liking. For
many of my address book contacts I will have two entries for the
same person, one is their personal address and the other a work
address. It seems that regardless of what I have for the
name/display name it will always choose the work address when
auto-completing (I had originally planned on just adding a
secondary email address in the contact itself but OE makes it
difficult to extract/use the address when needed). Are there any
tips, tricks or work arounds to get OE to select the "personal"
address first?


TIA,

Greg

Have you opened your address book *wab file in Notepad to compare it with Autocomplete.
One should be able to see how each field is field of data is stored and find a section for each category. The names are most likely grouped together, email addresses, and so on. Since OE's address book has less available columns(categories) than allowable records(rows) storing a column of data is probably quicker than storing rows.

I suspect that Autocomplete recall might function differently than the Address book storage method.
..winston

"GO" wrote in message ...
: I've just been playing around with the auto-complete and I may have
: uncovered how it works. It appears that one (and primary) search path is
: based on the age of the record/contact. That is, whatever contact was
: created first will be the first to show up as the auto-complete entry.
: Example: if I were to enter a contact "Bob (work)" and then a second entry
: "Bob (home)", "Bob (work)" would show up first when I start entering "Bob"
: in the To field. I'm assuming this is a result of how the Address Book
: (.wab) file is stored. They are probably stored like a text file with new
: entries at the bottom and when OE needs to query the address list it starts
: from the top down. I'm not 100% sure on this but it certainly seems like
: the case. Can anyone confirm this?

"...winston" wrote in message

....
Have you opened your address book *wab file in Notepad
to compare it with Autocomplete.


That idea works best with an exported CSV copy of the wab. ; )


One should be able to see how each field is field of data is stored and find
a section for each category. The names are most likely grouped together,
email addresses, and so on. Since OE's address book has less available
columns(categories) than allowable records(rows) storing a column of data
is probably quicker than storing rows.

I suspect that Autocomplete recall might function differently than the
Address book storage method.


It seems to have to do with the Last name, First Name sort option
and whether quotes were ever used manually...


FYI

Robert Aldwinckle
---

Make the Display Names, e.g., DaveWork (or DaveW) and DaveHome (or DaveH).
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org

GO wrote:
I'm hoping someone here has a tip or trick to make Outlook Express' auto
complete for addresses behave a little more to my liking. For many of my
address book contacts I will have two entries for the same person, one is
their personal address and the other a work address. It seems that
regardless of what I have for the name/display name it will always choose
the work address when auto-completing (I had originally planned on just
adding a secondary email address in the contact itself but OE makes it
difficult to extract/use the address when needed). Are there any tips,
tricks or work arounds to get OE to select the "personal" address first?

I wasn't making a direct comparison to how OE stores it's data versus the
auto-complete search routine, as I really have no idea how OE stores it's
data. I was thinking more logically, as if OE stores it's data in a flat,
unsorted text file with new entries appearing at the bottom, and when OE
queries the entries for the auto-complete routine it reads it from the top
down. And from my testing so far this definitely seems to be the case. My
most recent test was to create two entries: both with the first name "Test"
and Display Names of "Test 1" and "Test 2" (all other fields were blank).
When entering the word "test" into the To field, the entry that was created
first would be the first to be auto-completed.



....winston wrote:
Have you opened your address book *wab file in Notepad to compare it
with Autocomplete.
One should be able to see how each field is field of data is stored
and find a section for each category. The names are most likely
grouped together, email addresses, and so on. Since OE's address
book has less available columns(categories) than allowable
records(rows) storing a column of data is probably quicker than
storing rows.

I suspect that Autocomplete recall might function differently than
the Address book storage method.
..winston

"GO" wrote in message
...
I've just been playing around with the auto-complete and I may have
uncovered how it works. It appears that one (and primary) search
path is based on the age of the record/contact. That is, whatever
contact was created first will be the first to show up as the
auto-complete entry. Example: if I were to enter a contact "Bob
(work)" and then a second entry "Bob (home)", "Bob (work)" would
show up first when I start entering "Bob" in the To field. I'm
assuming this is a result of how the Address Book (.wab) file is
stored. They are probably stored like a text file with new entries
at the bottom and when OE needs to query the address list it starts
from the top down. I'm not 100% sure on this but it certainly
seems like the case. Can anyone confirm this?

You can create unique nicknames for the contacts. Autocomplete will
check those as well. I start my nicknames with a # so that they don't
accidentally match regular entry.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"GO" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I'm hoping someone here has a tip or trick to make Outlook Express'
auto
complete for addresses behave a little more to my liking. For many of
my
address book contacts I will have two entries for the same person, one
is
their personal address and the other a work address. It seems that
regardless of what I have for the name/display name it will always
choose
the work address when auto-completing (I had originally planned on
just
adding a secondary email address in the contact itself but OE makes it
difficult to extract/use the address when needed). Are there any
tips,
tricks or work arounds to get OE to select the "personal" address
first?


TIA,

Greg

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...
Hello,

I'm hoping someone here has a tip or trick to make Outlook Express' auto
complete for addresses behave a little more to my liking. For many of my
address book contacts I will have two entries for the same person, one is
their personal address and the other a work address. It seems that
regardless of what I have for the name/display name it will always choose
the work address when auto-completing (I had originally planned on just
adding a secondary email address in the contact itself but OE makes it
difficult to extract/use the address when needed). Are there any tips,
tricks or work arounds to get OE to select the "personal" address first?


TIA,

Greg