retaining contact shortcut when sending e-mails

Whenever I send a message, I often simply type the first letter of the
contact and the program provides a list of all contacts with that first
letter, allowing me to highlight the recipient of the message.

However, in Windows Mail, I try to do the same thing and as long as I
maintain contact several times a week, the list desappears or reduces and I
then have to open the Contacts Folder and open the entire folder and search
all the names until reaching the wanted contact.

Why does my list fail to retain ALL the contacts listing? Anyone have any
suggestions and/or answer?

Thanks,

Dan

This is a known deficiency in Windows Mail. It only remembers
a maximum of the last 29 contacts you sent mail to.
This function works much better in WLM:
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

--
Gary VanderMolen (MS-MVP WLM)


"Still learning" <> wrote in message
news:994C4C97-1A5F-4BE3-B6C4-...
> Whenever I send a message, I often simply type the first letter of the
> contact and the program provides a list of all contacts with that first
> letter, allowing me to highlight the recipient of the message.
>
> However, in Windows Mail, I try to do the same thing and as long as I
> maintain contact several times a week, the list desappears or reduces and I
> then have to open the Contacts Folder and open the entire folder and search
> all the names until reaching the wanted contact.
>
> Why does my list fail to retain ALL the contacts listing? Anyone have any
> suggestions and/or answer?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan

This is my problem also. This does not occur in Windows XP.

"Still learning" <> wrote in message
news:994C4C97-1A5F-4BE3-B6C4-...
> Whenever I send a message, I often simply type the first letter of the
> contact and the program provides a list of all contacts with that first
> letter, allowing me to highlight the recipient of the message.
>
> However, in Windows Mail, I try to do the same thing and as long as I
> maintain contact several times a week, the list desappears or reduces and
> I
> then have to open the Contacts Folder and open the entire folder and
> search
> all the names until reaching the wanted contact.
>
> Why does my list fail to retain ALL the contacts listing? Anyone have any
> suggestions and/or answer?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan

Please look at my response to "Still learning" which was posted
5 hours prior to your post.

--
Gary VanderMolen (MS-MVP WLM)


"Mae" <> wrote in message news:...
> This is my problem also. This does not occur in Windows XP.
>
> "Still learning" <> wrote in message
> news:994C4C97-1A5F-4BE3-B6C4-...
>> Whenever I send a message, I often simply type the first letter of the
>> contact and the program provides a list of all contacts with that first
>> letter, allowing me to highlight the recipient of the message.
>>
>> However, in Windows Mail, I try to do the same thing and as long as I
>> maintain contact several times a week, the list desappears or reduces and I
>> then have to open the Contacts Folder and open the entire folder and search
>> all the names until reaching the wanted contact.
>>
>> Why does my list fail to retain ALL the contacts listing? Anyone have any
>> suggestions and/or answer?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dan
>