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Am using the stand alone Outlook as a backup email. One of my own email addresses is spelled incorrectly(not my main address, BTW). I would like to delete and can’t find a way as it does not appear anywhere in the address book. Can someone help? Thanks

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Go to the account settings and either amend the spelling, then follow the prompts or simply remove the account all together.

You can start over if you wish with the correct address spelling should you want to.

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Where is this account hosted? On a remote server? Locally?
Is it the description for an email address?

cheers, Paul

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I don’t mean to sound like a dummy, but a long time ago, I created an Outlook mailbox and I’m thinking, I just went out on the web to the M$oft site and created it there. I don’t know where the Outlook mailbox is hosted. I don’t want to delete the account either..there’s nothing wrong with the account. It’s just my typing went awry when I put in one of my other email addresses to send stuff to and I messed it up. I accidentally sent something to the address with the typo and realized after looking why it never arrived.

It’s not a major problem and nothing is wrong with the account. I know how to edit incorrect email addresses in my address book, but this messed up one doesn’t appear anywhere in my contacts/address book. Iwent to settings and couldn’t find anything that would show me the misspelled address.

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The message with the typo should be in your outbox?
Is the typo one of your emails or very close?
Was the email sent? Did it bounce?
If it didn’t bounce then the email address is valid, just not yours.

Does the “typo” come up when you enter an address in a new mail? If so it is in your shortcut addresses. I think you can delete these by highlighting the “typo” address in the dropdown and pressing Shift Delete.

cheers, Paul

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The email with the incorrect address is in my sent box and it didn’t bounce so some unwilling soul got the email. The “typo” is second on the drop down list. I had already tried hitting the “delete” key no joy. I went back to the drop down email list and did the shift delete key thing and nothing happened. The first address on the list is the correct one that was hi-lighted along with the second incorrect one also hi-lighted.  I suspect maybe that’s why I couldn’t delete the the typo.

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A quick search for “delete outlook nickname” brought up the same method, but you have to use the cursor keys to highlight only the required name and then press Del.

cheers, Paul

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[PeachesP]

Well, I used the cursor keys and got the incorrect address highlighted, and still could not delete it. Tried both shift-Del and Del neither of which did the trick.

I figured out why I couldn’t delete it. The Outlook mailbox that I opened a long time ago and sits on my desktop looks totally different than the one that opens when I use Edge to look in my email box using that browser. I was able to delete the misspelled email address in the newer version of Outlook but not in the old one. All the info that’s in the older copy of Outlook is in the newer version that is much improved.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by PeachesP.

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PeachesP wrote:

The Outlook mailbox that I opened a long time ago and sits on my desktop looks totally different than the one that opens when I use Edge

The old mail is using Outlook/Mail installed on your machine.
The new mail is webmail via your browser.
They will always be very different and the nicknames will also be different.

As both have the same information it means your email is saved on the server and locally. Whether you choose to use the local or webmail version is up to you.

cheers, Paul

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Keep typing if it appears under “Other Suggestions”:

Since Other Suggestions entries don’t include the X, how do you delete them?

The easiest way, if Outlook cooperates, is to type enough of the name so that it moves up to the Recent People section, where it can be deleted.

How to delete Autocomplete’s Other Suggestions

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Thank you all so much.

I read the Autocomplete Other Suggestions article. It kind of didn’t work for me because “outlook didn’t cooperate” & I didn’t have a Recent People section show as the article indicated. I really didn’t want to get into the registry for such an issue that isn’t a real problem now that I know its there.

I have both Outlook and Outlook Live on my desktop now and can use either one at will. The incorrect one on Live is gone.

Appreciate the help. Happy Holidays!

Diane

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