Last week I needed to send an email to a contact at Contoso,
Windows 7 Home Basic, a company we partner with on marketing materials. Unfortunately,
Windows 7 Starter, I had not emailed my contact in about a year and I couldn’t remember her name, let alone her email address. Since we had only exchanged a few emails I had neglected to add her to my Outlook contacts. However,
Windows 7 Home Premium Key, with Outlook 2010 I was still able to find her email address quickly using Suggested Contacts. Suggested Contacts automatically keeps track of everyone you send a message to. Unlike the Auto-Complete List that appears when you begin typing a name or e-mail address in the To, Cc,
Office 2010 Download, or Bcc boxes of a message, you can search your suggested contacts, and there is no maximum number of suggested contacts (the Auto-Complete List has a maximum of 1,000 entries).Here’s how I found my Contoso contact. In the Navigation Pane, I clicked Contacts. Then I clicked the Suggested Contacts folder. In the search box near the top I entered @contoso, knowing that my contact’s email address would end with @contoso.com or @contoso.net. Sure enough, I found her — Anna Lidman. For good measure,
Windows 7 Starter Key, I dragged Anna’s contact business card from Suggested Contacts to my Outlook Contacts folder so I would have it handy in the future.Thanks to Suggested Contacts I don’t feel stupid when I forget someone’s email address or even their name; I can easily search or browse and find the people I’m looking for.
Let us know if you’ve had an occasion to use Suggested Contacts and what you think of this new feature.Josh Meisels
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