# MS Outlook question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-question/354656>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 28, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-question/354656 "2006-04-28T21:17:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rainy)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-question/354656/1 "2006-04-28T21:17:07Z")

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I have a buddy who changes email addresses like I change shorts. The problem is when I want to send him an email and start typing his address into the “TO” field, I get a list of a dozen addresses (all showing up just as his name). Even though I have kept his address up to date on his contact card. This old addresses are remembered by Outlook from where he has sent me mail. How do I purge these unwanted addresses?

-rainy

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**Author:** ![byomtoob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@byomtoob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/byomtoob)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-question/354656/2 "2006-04-28T21:18:38Z")

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> [@rainy](#):
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> I have a buddy who changes email addresses like I change shorts. The problem is when I want to send him an email and start typing his address into the “TO” field, I get a list of a dozen addresses (all showing up just as his name). Even though I have kept his address up to date on his contact card. This old addresses are remembered by Outlook from where he has sent me mail. How do I purge these unwanted addresses?
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> -rainy

Shockingly simple – press the delete button on your keyboard for each one of those addresses.

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**Author:** ![rainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rainy)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-question/354656/3 "2006-04-29T19:07:39Z")

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> [@byomtoob](#):
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> Shockingly simple – press the delete button on your keyboard for each one of those addresses.

Dang, that was shockingly simple. Thanks!

-rainy

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**Author:** ![rainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rainy)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-question/354656/4 "2006-05-02T05:06:28Z")

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So simple they all came back the next time I booted up ☹

-rainy