On 2/13/02 10:31 AM, "Jan Martel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought that the email "suggestions" (the list that appears when you start > typing letters in the "to" field in a new email), was sorted with nicknames > first then addresses of people I'd written to in EvX's best guess at the one > I'd be most likely to use. So, I gave my friend Margaret the nickname > "Margaret." That does work to put her ahead of other Margaret's (and indeed > Margo's) in my address book when I type marg. But I have to go to the "g." > Typing just an m gets me the Mac-L mailing list, an address that is > alphabetically ahead of Margaret, but doesn't have a nickname. Going to > "mar" gets me my husband, to whom I'm sure I send more emails than most > people, but whose nickname is his first name, not his last. Do I need to do > something else to get the list to sort in the way I want it, or is this how > it's supposed to work, and if so, why? > > Just to see what would happen, I tried changing Margaret's nickname to "M". > Typing "M" in the "to" field still got me Macintosh... Make it distinctive, unique. Make her nickname "Mrg". Typing "Mr" will probably do the trick, unless you already have contacts called "Mr. Softee", etc. where "Mr" is not the title but part of the name. In that case, give her "Mg" nickname: I'm sure that will do it. -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
