The entry that is selected is the one that, based on a weighting scheme, is
the most frequently used contact in the displayed list. Because of this, the
ease of getting to any contact you regularly communicate with should be just
as easy as in OE. Are you not experiencing this? If so I'd love the details.
> From: James Naron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 23:35:29 -0500
> To: -Mac Entourage Talk- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Auto-complete in Address book
>
> On 12/18/00 10:51 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On 12/18/00 7:05 PM, "James Naron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, but if there was an option to turn off all the excess auto-complete
>>> entries, I could usually find the address I am looking for with the
FIRST
>>> keypress (as in OE 5).
>>
>> If you give all your contacts nicknames beginning with the letters of
their
>> first or last name (so you can remember them by just typing what you used
to
>> before they had nicknames), those contacts will always come to the top.
>
> Yes, but before, I could type the first couple of letters of their first
OR
> last name and have them come up. Now with Entourage, I have to pick either
> their first or last name to use as their nickname and only get the
efficient
> method in that manner. Sometimes I think in first names, sometimes in
> last...
>
> If Microsoft is unwilling to provide us with an option to turn this
> "feature" off, perhaps it could be smart enough to sort the autocomplete
> entries that come from your address book to the top, so that they are more
> easily selectable?
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