Outlook: Delete Autocomplete Email Addresses
How many times have you brought up Outlook, composed a new email and started to type the name of the person and Outlook auto completes the email address for you? Very nice feature, isn’t it. Yes very nice until you type an incorrect email address in and Outlook saves it. Even after you have corrected a wrong email address in your contacts or sent a correct email, the old / incorrect email will continue to pop up and confuse you.
Microsoft outlook stores any email address you type into the “To” field–wrong or right. For example, if I type in “tom.doe@tedt.com” instead of “tom.doe@test.com”, outlook will try to auto-complete the error address into the email field. No matter where you try to correct this, the error email address will always be remembered.
If this happens to you and you get the auto-complete list, just press the arrow key until you have the incorrect email address highlighted. Then hit the DELETE key on your keyboard.
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