John Thanks for the explanation. I like to understand. People to whom I send e-mails regularly are in my address book. So Outlook does not get the opportunity to "try" to remember and auto complete their addresses. From what you are saying, it seems as if this is a blessing. I would hate sending a "personal" e-mail to the wrong person! From what Chris wrote, I think we now will have to accept that Microsoft Outlook 2000 just does not have this luxurious function of firstly auto completing and secondly, when it does auto complete, to do it correctly. Renette -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Ramsey Sent: 31 October 2006 10:40 To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Outlook Hello Rynette, You keep the same hours I do. I also get just the name of the person and not the full email address in the to field. However, this only happens if the person's info is stored in the address book. If it is a person I email a lot but have not saved their information in the address book, their address still comes up after the first three letters are typed in the to field. That is, if there are no other people whose addresses begin with those same three letters. Sometimes if I start to type a person's name in the to field, I get the wrong person because JFW is not speaking the completed name or address. For instance, if I want to send a message to Steve, I have to type S T E V because typing S T E might send a message to Stephanie. Finally, JFW seems to read auto completed names when I type them but rarely reads an auto completed email address. Sorry to talk so long. Take care, John