Autocomplete file outlook

Open My Computer. Click OK. Look at the date. If the file date is old, it may be an older, unused NK2 file. Look at the size, larger file sizes generally indicate higher usage and more data. The default profile name if unchanged is Outlook. Moving the NK2 Autocomplete File to another Profile If you created a new profile and you need to move your old autocomplete information, first navigate to the location of the NK2 file.

Open Outlook and the autocomplete list will once again appear. Moving the NK2 Autocomplete file to Another Computer To move the autocomplete file to another computer, copy the relevant autocomplete file to a USB stick or some other type of portable media. Leave a comment Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. It has no way of knowing if the address you typed is right. For example, if you sent an email to [email protected] ie put the period in the wrong place that address will be added to Autocomplete.

A pleasant surprise! This only seems to work for wrongly formatted email addresses like the fred. When Autocomplete saves an email address, it also saves the email format to send with. The latter is the default. The fix is to remove the Autocomplete entry and let another entry be created when you next send a message to that address.

The easiest way to delete an item on the Autocomplete list is to click on the X on the right of an entry.

Happily, you can edit the details of the Autocomplete list using NK2Edit , a free tool from the smart folks at Nirsoft. NK2Edit is the power tool for Autocomplete. It shows you all the innards of the Autocomplete list. Record Weight is a measure of how often each Autocomplete record is used. Sort by Record Weight and the most commonly used addresses should be at the top. That makes it easy to select and delete entries with lower Record Weights.

How Outlook calculates Record Weight is complicated. In our quick test, sending an email to a new address is added to AutoComplete with an initial Record Weight of 16, However there are entries with lower values than that.

Make sure Autocomplete is on. If the option and button are greyed out then Autocomplete has been disabled using the registry or Group Policy settings explained below. Mail Tools for Outlook. Online Services. Productivity Tools.

Automatic Message Processing Tools. Special Function Automatic Processing Tools. Housekeeping and Message Management. Project and Business Management Tools. Run Rules on messages after reading. Outlook Suggestion Box UserVoice.

All rights reserved. Slipstick Systems is not affiliated with Microsoft Corporation. Sign up for Exchange Messaging Outlook. Please note: If you subscribed to Exchange Messaging Outlook before August , please re-subscribe. Check for updates then restart Outlook, even if no updates were downloaded.

If you are using the Windows store install of Office , you cannot roll your install back using this script. Fixed: Autocomplete is messed up in Outlook was last modified: September 27th, by Diane Poremsky. Notify of. Inline Feedbacks. December 4, pm. Diane Poremsky diane-poremsky. Reply to elese.

August 27, am. Reply to Lil Baby. July 1, am. Reply to Marco. July 1, pm. It might be because of this: There is a new feature that was enabled by default that syncs settings in the cloud and it is causing changes to revert when you restart outlook. Reply to Diane Poremsky. July 2, pm. I think it's an Outlook bug, but I did not find reference to in on the Net.

Thanks, Marco. August 26, am. June 2, pm. Reply to paul cummins. May 20, am. Reply to LCP. May 20, pm.