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Can't find the list of all my Outlook 2007 email addresses

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raygg

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Jun 14, 2000
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I cannot find my list of email addresses created automatically from emails I send or receive. I am running win-XP Pro SP3.

I replaced Office 2003 with Office 2007 6 months ago and sincerely regret it. I used Office since the days when they sold it for win2000 (or was it win98?) in the big white box 10 or 15 years ago and have never experienced such problems using Office before.

The file ribbon/tabs/menus are totally unintuitive and time after time I cannot find things easily -or sometimes not at all-which should be simple to locate. I hate it so much I installed a third paryty product that gives me the classic menus.

Just as a by-the-way, our local town library also installed a third party classic menu package for Office 2007 because the public is so confused when they try to use the original menus of Office 2007 on the public library computers.


How do I find and correct email entries? Where are these things stored? If I go to contacts or the address list all I see is 3 or 4 entries that I specifically added there.

All the hundred or more other email addresses (I don't know how many email addresses I have stored in Outlook because I cannot locate the list) saved in outlook are nowhere to be found except in one case: If I open a new email or a reply and start entering a name - the automatic complete function gives me a drop down list of all the email addresses or names I have received/sent with those letters typed. No other way works for me to find all these squirrelled away email addresses.

If I want to correct or save an email address I cannot find the addresses in any other way. Why can't I just go to address book and find all these? These hidden email addresses are simply not there.
 
The addresses you refer to are in a nickname cache. They have never, as far as I am aware, been automatically added to your contacts list.

They can be found at C:\Documents and Settings\username\AppData\Microsoft\Outlook in a file called outlook.nk2. HOWEVER they can not be edited. You will need to set your system to view hidden and system files in order to see the .nk2 file.

As far as editing them, the only way you can really do that is to delete them. As you start to type the e-mail address in a new or reply e-mail and the address that you want to amend pops up simply down arrow to it and hit the delete key.

Hope this helps.

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