OE: Artificial Stupidity

[Allan Leedy]

In Outlook Express, when I address an e-mail to someone in my address book,
OE asks me to choose among possible addressees who have the same given name
in my address book, even though I have already specified the one I am
addressing. Is there a way to turn off this "feature"?

[rifleman]

"Allan Leedy" > wrote in message
...
> In Outlook Express, when I address an e-mail to someone in my address
book,
> OE asks me to choose among possible addressees who have the same given
name
> in my address book, even though I have already specified the one I am
> addressing. Is there a way to turn off this "feature"?
>
>

For help with your OE questions, try an OE newsgroup such as

microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlooke xpress (for OE 6), or

an OE help website such as http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com. If you're

accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support

Services "Community Newsgroups" web interface, click

http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer

to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then click the plus sign next to

your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that

version number. Good luck!

[PA Bear]

No. Wade through your Address Book and delete the duplicates.
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HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/default.asp

Allan Leedy wrote:
>> In Outlook Express, when I address an e-mail to someone in my address
>> book, OE asks me to choose among possible addressees who have the same
>> given name in my address book, even though I have already specified the
>> one I am addressing. Is there a way to turn off this "feature"?

[Allan Leedy]

There are no duplicates. You misunderstood. Evidently each of my Address
Book entries would have to have a unique first name. My correspondents
won't co-operate with that.

"PA Bear" > wrote in message
...
> No. Wade through your Address Book and delete the duplicates.
> --
> HTH...Please post back to this thread
>
> ~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP
>
> Protect Your PC
> http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/default.asp
>
> Allan Leedy wrote:
> >> In Outlook Express, when I address an e-mail to someone in my address
> >> book, OE asks me to choose among possible addressees who have the same
> >> given name in my address book, even though I have already specified the
> >> one I am addressing. Is there a way to turn off this "feature"?

[PA Bear]

OK, give some examples, please:

"I type in _________ and these addresses pop-up: ________________."
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OE6-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlooke xpress

HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/default.asp

Allan Leedy wrote:
>> There are no duplicates. You misunderstood. Evidently each of my
>> Address Book entries would have to have a unique first name. My
>> correspondents won't co-operate with that.
>>
>>> No. Wade through your Address Book and delete the duplicates.
>>> --
>>> Allan Leedy wrote:
>>>>> In Outlook Express, when I address an e-mail to someone in my address
>>>>> book, OE asks me to choose among possible addressees who have the same
>>>>> given name in my address book, even though I have already specified
>>>>> the one I am addressing. Is there a way to turn off this "feature"?