Ingressor Desktop 3.0 - Outlook Addresses Auto-Complete List Editor

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.

"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.