Disabling auto creation
I’ve discovered that somehow Microsoft Outlook stores (somewhere in the Cloud?) every single email contact I’ve ever made, even if the recipient isn’t in our PC address list! Yes it’s a bit late to find out, and I can see why it could be helpful to some, but I want to STOP it happening! Is there any way to do this, perhaps by ticking a box somewhere I haven’t noticed? And is there any way to delete all the stuff from past years that I don’t want? I’d like my address book just to contain those addresses I currently use (partly because some addresses are long dead!!!!).
I’ve had this autoresponse from a computer forum:
To prevent Outlook from automatically storing every email contact you make, you can adjust the contact sync settings or disable the automatic creation of contacts for email recipients in the Outlook settings.”
but I’ve now tried for several hours to follow this advice and I can’t find any way of doing it, or any box to tick or untick in the settings options.
Any help would be much appreciated.
I’ve discovered that somehow Microsoft Outlook stores (somewhere in the Cloud?) every single email contact I’ve ever made, even if the recipient isn’t in our PC address list! Yes it’s a bit late to find out, and I can see why it could be helpful to some, but I want to STOP it happening! Is there any way to do this, perhaps by ticking a box somewhere I haven’t noticed? And is there any way to delete all the stuff from past years that I don’t want? I’d like my address book just to contain those addresses I currently use (partly because some addresses are long dead!!!!). I’ve had this autoresponse from a computer forum: To prevent Outlook from automatically storing every email contact you make, you can adjust the contact sync settings or disable the automatic creation of contacts for email recipients in the Outlook settings.”but I’ve now tried for several hours to follow this advice and I can’t find any way of doing it, or any box to tick or untick in the settings options. Any help would be much appreciated. Read More
