Outlook Banter - View Single Post - Delete name from "Find a contact" drop down list

**Lost** · October 23rd 07, 06:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts

Just wanted to let you know it worked. Thanks very much!

"lost" wrote:

Thank you both, I'll try that!

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

lost wrote:

I'm using Outlook 2003. In the "Find a Contact" drop down list I
want to delete some names that appear in that list. I know how to
delete a name for the autocomplete list but this doesn't work here.

One of the names that appears in my drop down list is interfering with
finding the contact that I actually want. Both contacts have similar
last names. One is Johnstone and the other is Johnston. When I try
to find Johnston, the Johnstone contact information automatically
comes up and it doesn't give me a selection of both from which to
choose as it does in other circumstances. Johnstone (the one I don't
want is in "Contacts"), Johnston, the one I want is in the Global
Address Book. When I delete Jonhstone from my contacts it has no
problem "finding" Johnston.

After Judy so kindly nudged me in the proper direction, I know what you're
describing. The registry key that holds this information is
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\O utlook\Contact\QuickFindMRU\QuickFindMRU
and I believe it's Unicode format, so I don't know of any good way to remove
just one entry. However, deleting the QuickFindMRU subkey will clear the
entire list,
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]