How to Clear the auto-complete data in OE ?

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John Fonseca - 30 Aug 2007 07:02 GMT

I use Outlook Express 6 on an XP Pro with Service Pack 2. I find
auto-complete useful, however recently it started to auto-complete an
incorrect e-mail address. I figure I must have accidently entered the
address incorrectly once, and now it tries to automatically fill in that
incorrect address each time I start to send an e-mail to that person. How
can I delete or clear the stored data so that OE no longer proposes the
incorrect address? Thanks in advance.

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PA Bear - 30 Aug 2007 08:15 GMT

[Have you corrected the incorrect email address?]

Tools > Options > Send > Automatically complete email addresses when
composing (disable)

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> I use Outlook Express 6 on an XP Pro with Service Pack 2. I find
> auto-complete useful, however recently it started to auto-complete an
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> can I delete or clear the stored data so that OE no longer proposes the
> incorrect address? Thanks in advance.

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John Fonseca - 31 Aug 2007 10:24 GMT

Thanks for the reply. I saw another thread where someone exported their WAB,
then re-imported it and the incorrect e-mail address were then shown and
could be deleted. That solved the problem. But I will try just correcting
the address to see if that works. It's much simpler.

> [Have you corrected the incorrect email address?]
>
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> > can I delete or clear the stored data so that OE no longer proposes the
> > incorrect address? Thanks in advance.

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