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Ingressor Desktop 3.0 - Outlook Addresses Auto-Complete List Editor

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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com Guide

Ingressor Desktop - Outlook Addresses Auto-Complete List Editor

Ingressor Desktop - Outlook Addresses Auto-Complete List Editor

Heinz Tschabitscher
The Bottom Line
Ingressor Desktop lets you edit the auto-complete list of recipients used by Outlook easily, but in a comprehensive manner. Even exporting contacts to the Outlook address book and creating backups of the list or moving it to a new computer are possible.
Pros
  • Ingressor Desktop lets you edit the Outlook auto-complete address list easily
  • Entries can also be imported and exported to Outlook contacts or files for backup
Cons
  • Ingressor Desktop cannot detect broken, mistyped or useless entries automatically
  • You cannot import auto-complete lists from other email programs easily
Description
  • Ingressor Desktop lets you edit the auto-complete list used in Outlook.
  • You can edit all details of auto-complete entries including name, address and Exchange information.
  • Ingressor Desktop imports and exports addresses from and to text files.
  • Auto-complete entries can also be exported to Outlook contacts.
  • Of course, deleting multiple entries in one go is easily accomplished.
  • Ingressor Desktop supports Windows 2000/3/XP and Outlook 2000/3.
Guide Review - Ingressor Desktop 3.0 - Outlook Addresses Auto-Complete List Editor
"I hope you know," Outlook says, "that this will go down on your permanent record. Every email address you type in the 'To:', 'Cc:' or 'Bcc:' field will be remembered. I do not care whether they are mistyped, dysfunctional, redundant or embarrassing. Only when my limit of 1000 entries is reached will I drop the oldest. The list might have slowed down noticeably long before that.

Of course, this semi-permanent record of auto-complete entries will be kept in a hidden place, not something accessible like the 'Contacts' folder." Of course, Outlook cannot scare us. We know that a mere "Del" is enough to get rid of any address that auto-completes, and we know the file that keeps the auto-complete data: Outlook.NK2 in Outlook's application data folder.

Best of all, we have Ingressor Desktop to edit that file easily. Not only can you delete any number of entries fast with Ingressor Desktop, editing them (to correct a typo or add a name, for example) is a snap, too. If you use auto-complete extensively and forget to add people to your "Contacts" but would like to have done the latter, Ingressor Desktop can export entries to Outlook contacts swiftly. Saving them to a file or importing from a text file in one swoop is possible, too.

Importing auto-complete data from other email programs is not so easy, however, and Ingressor Desktop includes no tools to identify broken addresses automatically.

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Ingressor Desktop and Nickname EditorMay 11, 2009By ChiliPepp
"While the software may work, it stopped working on a client's PC. Tech support was horrendous. No phone available to call them, and the e-mails that were received back were sarcastic in nature, demeaning and downright nasty. When it works, the software was able to edit the nickname list in Outlook. When it self deactivated - we were told it was all of our fault. Poor service."
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