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Where does Outlook store mail and autocomplete addresses in Microsoft Outlook for Mac?

About 2 years ago MS rolled out a new interface but it still resides under "Outlook 16". So if you search around for files or anything like that, it'll be referencing how "Old" ...
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Outlook: Autoremove unused addresses from autocomplete

I want to prevent selecting the incorrect email address when composing messages. Microsoft Outlook's autocomplete feature aids me in achieving this goal by preventing typos that might occur if I had ...
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Outlook's autocomplete isn't working for only a couple of addresses

So I'm following this article to get autocomplete working: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/troubleshoot/contacts/autocomplete-not-working-correctly-in-outlook-2010#if-you-have-a-microsoft-...
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Contacts search on New Outlook on MacOS contact lost

When you compose a new email in the "New Outlook" UX on MacOS, in the "to" field I was finding a contact via autocomplete by typing the first few letters of their email and she ...
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Outlook auto-complete not resolving properly

Using Outlook 365 on Exchange server, auto-complete recently started behaving erratically. Many times, when I select a suggestion after typing a name, either by clicking or hitting enter, it does not ...
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Outlook : change autocomplete "to' field behavior to enable domain lookup

When Writing an email, the "To" field is today unable to lookup users through the domain name with the autocomplete feature, searching for names and surnames works yet nothing after the @ is ...
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Configure Outlook autocomplete to use/prefer a particular contact?

When I send a new email, it's usually to the same four or five people. However, Outlook autocomplete never seems to recognize that when I type "TJ" I usually want a particular TJ to either simply ...
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Does AutoComplete Outlook 2016 cost any money/bandwidth/memory to the company?

Does it cost money or does it consume any resources to have the AutoComplete feature enabled in Microsoft Outlook? The IT disabled (greyed out) the AutoComplete for contact names in Outlook 2016 for ...
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Why do some of my Outlook autocomplete contacts have angle brackets, and others parentheses?

In Outlook, some of my Outlook contacts have angle/chevron brackets around the email address, while others have round/parentheses instead. What does this distinction signify? Can I change it so they ...
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Outlook automatically adding in the date when I use the full stop and Enter key

Does anyone know how to get Outlook to stop autocompleting my dates when I use the full stop and Enter keys. I have to enter to get to a new line but then it automatically adds in today's date. I ...
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How do I turn off the onscreen keyboard's auto-correction feature in Outlook 2013?

Recently, I have migrated my software from a PC to be discarded to a new one, Office 2013 as well. Since then I experience a behavior I had not on the old machine. In Outlook 2013, all at a sudden I ...
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Autocomplete errors on internal exchange emails

We recently switched the company from a hosted exchange to our own Exschange 2016 server. When we moved everything over we would get bouncebacks on internal emails. I found the cause of this to be ...
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Restrict Outlook auto-complete to Global Address Book ONLY

I possibly know the outcome to this problem, but I've been asked to investigate anyway. I work in a law firm that has a lot of very sensitive information. Occasionally, an under-pressure-super-busy ...
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Outlook autocomplete names keep reappearing after I delete them

This is an NK2 file that has been copied from a previous incarnation of my system after a clean wipe. Autocomplete works great, but whenever I delete an old name in Outlook (select the name in the ...
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Outlook 2013 Autocomplete Function not working

The autocomplete function in Outlook (when you start typing and it auto fills the email addresses) just will not work on this one mailbox. I have tried everything I can imagine including: Creating a ...
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