I hesitate to pose such a mundane question to such an erudite group, bit I am pulling what is left of my hair out trying to figure out how I can get Outlook (2000)to "auto-complete" the address bar. I have looked in MSFT's knowledge base, but I just keep going in circles. Thank you for any and all advise. I was previously using something called Incredimail, which I really liked and worked well.

Self deprecation & flattery will get you everywhere ;-) . MS Outlook help is (surprise!) stupid on this, the AutoComplete we most care about. You'll notice the help files index comtains AutoCompleteEverythingElse entries, but not a peep on msg addressing. At the risk of insulting your techy accomplishments, have you populated the addressbook? AutoComplete must, of course, match your partial input against some static list from which it can complete. That list is entries in your addressbook. No matching entry in your addressbook = no match = no autocomplete. Other than that I cannot guess what might be up. There is a repair tool in the Office2000 copy of Outlook that you have. It's located under the HELP menu. G'luck.

my coworker is having the same problem. Not sure what it is yet but he's going to try a repair next. I used the help and found where it says to go to insert-auto text- and check off "show autocomplete suggestions" but it didn't fix the problem. I had him also add an address in the address book but it didn't fix the problem.