To add even further to the confusion is the fact that there are two types of
"nicknames" in Outlook and you have them confused. When you manually resolve
a name in Outlook, that name is stored in the autoresolution cache and is
referred to as a "nickname." The next time you resolve that name, it will
use the address you previously stored for that name. That has nothing to do
with the Nickname field, which as Sue points out is simply a data field in
the Contact record. That field has never been used for autoresolution in the
Outlook Address Book Service.
The reason you may have thought it was is that you weren't using the Outlook
Address Book Service in Outlook 98 and 2000 when you were using IMO mode.
You were using the Windows Address Book Service.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"FranksBank" wrote in message
...
There seems to be a continual denial that Nickname usage has existed in
anything other than peculiar versions of Outlook. I have used Outlook '98,
2000 and now 2003 in various offices and at home; all aparently standard
versions. Only now in the 2003 version can I not use Nicknames in the way
that I have used them before. As follows:

Having set a nickname, I could hit Ctrl-K and have the relevant detail
appear in the To field. The fact that this does not work in Outlook 2003
is,
to say the least, extremely frustrating. It never ceases to amaze me how
application advances often translate into functional deterioration.

Having been unable to find a satisfactory answer to the question 'how do I
use my nicknames?' I would like to re-phrase this question and put it to
to
the forum:

What is the Nickname field for in 2003? What purpose does it serve, and
how
so?
Rather than a repeated 'that won't work and never did' answer, it would be
very useful and customer friendly to explain exactly what the field is
about
and how it may be used.

Many thanks for any further constructive assistance with this issue.
Kind regards
FB



"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Not in any standard version of Outlook. Only the long abandoned IMO mode
of
Outlook made use of that field.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
wrote in message
ups.com...
There is a nickname field in the Contats setup page. This is the name
you could (previous to Outlook 2003) use in place of an actual e-mail
address in the "To" field, or the other fileds in a newlwy composed
message.