Outlook Classic to New Outlook Autocomplete

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Outlook Classic to New Outlook Autocomplete​

Hey Nibbers, I'm going to post some tips about New Outlook here in the next few months. I have been writing how to articles since last summer and thought you all here might not know, or do and want a source to check back.

This one folks is going to be tough to explain, but I'll do my best. I'm also testing a few of these to make a new video, please subscribe to my YouTube so get notified when it's published. As well, this article will be updated after I'm done testing.

Microsoft Exchange and Outlook.com host the autocomplete on the Microsoft servers. When you sign into New Outlook, the autocomplete entries should already show up (might need to give it a few minutes)

If you had POP/PST or IMAP setup in Outlook Classic, then your autocomplete will most likely not migrate over. To get your autocomplete from Outlook Classic to be available in New Outlook, you need to decide if you want to migrate your email to an account that will use the autocomplete.

From my testing, here is the list I have so far

• Exchange
• Outlook.com
• Yahoo/AOL/Verizon (these should work, I'm still testing on these)
• Gmail (should as it has synching for calendar and contacts available in New Outlook)
• Google Workspace (still testing this but it normally does work)

What email accounts might not work

IMAP from any email host that doesn't have a full synchronizing platform, only email (Hostgator, BlueHost, Network Solutions, email your web designer set up for you, etc) will most likely NOT work. If you need to migrate this account to Exchange, reach out to me, I can do these migrations and offer full Outlook conversion to Exchange. You can also chose Google Workspace, but if you love Outlook, I recommend Exchange.

If you happen to have many email accounts in Outlook, the autocomplete file covers all the email accounts. You will need to do some tech work here to get this accomplished. Or I can help too, might be faster as I know how to do it, but here are the instructions. I do not go into deep technical level on this, so if you're not an Outlook tech savvy person, this might not be for you.

1. Create a new Outlook profile and only add in the email that you want to use in New Outlook with autocomplete. If you want all of your accounts, then you can do this process for each email.
   1. Do not delete your current profile, very important! Outlook allows you to have many profiles.
   2. To make it easier, you can set this new profile as default, so when you do the next instructions, it will open your new profile
   3. Send a few emails so autocomplete has data to add the dat file
   4. Close Outlook and relaunch it
   5. You should see those test emails in the autocomplete.You can also test by logging in online to your online account that allows synching: Yahoo/Gmail account
   6. Now you can move on to step 2
2. Then watch this video in full, it has instructions on how to find your current profile autcomplete and how to import it it into the new profile
   2. Tip: Always make a copy of the autocomplete, do not cut