{"id":56,"date":"2021-01-08T20:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T20:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2021-01-08T20:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T20:23:18","slug":"disabling-other-suggestions-in-outlook-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/08\/disabling-other-suggestions-in-outlook-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabling &#8220;Other Suggestions&#8221; in Outlook 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Outlook in Office 2016, the recipient contact autofill has a new category called &#8220;<strong>other suggestions<\/strong>&#8221; that suggests people outside of contacts and recent recipients, which annoyingly includes adresses that were entered incorrectly. So if you send a message with a typo in the recipient field, that nonexistent typo email will be forever suggested in the autofill. Unlike the true Contacts entries,&nbsp;<strong>these suggestions can&#8217;t be deleted<\/strong>&nbsp;through normal means. This registry key will enable a hidden option to disable the &#8220;other suggestions&#8221; category entirely while keeping the contacts autosuggest feature active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Office\\16.0\\Outlook\\Options<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key name: DisableAutoCompleteUpdate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key type: DWORD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Value: 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Outlook in Office 2016, the recipient contact autofill has a new category called &#8220;other suggestions&#8221; that suggests people outside of contacts and recent recipients, which annoyingly includes adresses that were entered incorrectly. So if you send a message with a typo in the recipient field, that nonexistent typo email will be forever suggested in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/08\/disabling-other-suggestions-in-outlook-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Disabling &#8220;Other Suggestions&#8221; in Outlook 2016&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}