Outlook Auto-complete Making You Look Silly?

Auto complete, great technology in the hands of a well versed techno nerd, but out there in the world, it just starts to make good people look silly. What am I talking about? Well on professional web email servers, yes some people still do this, every once in a while, someone will post a personal message to the professional list which gets flamed by the list users and apologies from the offender.

How do you stop Outlook auto-complete from making you look silly? Try these steps:
First off check your email before you send it. Sometimes the obvious can be elusive.

You can also tell outlook to stop giving extra auto-complete suggestions on an instance by instance basis, just by doing this, from an auto-complete tab, do the following:

Delete a name from the AutoComplete list:
Select the unwanted name using the UP ARROW or DOWN ARROW.
Press DELETE.

Or:

Turn off AutoComplete name suggesting completely in Outlook:
On the Tools menu, click Options.
On the Preferences tab, click E-mail Options, and then click Advanced E-mail
Options.
Clear the Suggest names while completing To, Cc, and Bcc fields check box.

Step 1: On the Tools menu, click Options.

Step2: On the Preferences tab, click E-mail Options, and then click Advanced E-mail
Options.

Step 3: Clear the Suggest names while completing To, Cc, and Bcc fields check box

Happy Outlooking.

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