Address Book Nicknames (Netscape 7.1)

With Netscape 4.7.4 I was able to use convenient two-letter nicknames for people I write to frequently -- entering the two letters in the "To" field would bring up the correct address. However, with Netscape 7.1, I can't "hardwire" my nicknames -- typing in a nickname (of whatever length) will bring up a bunch of alternative recipients (I have many in my address book), and I have found myself on a number of occasions sending messages to the wrong people, because I've just assumed that my two-letter code brought up the right addressee. Is there any way to turn off the "automatic recipient choice fill-in" feature of Netscape 7.1 and return to my old ways?

Thanks!

PLS

 

Hi pls,

In Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups
Address Autocomplete
Disable: When addressing messages look for matching entries in: Local Address Book

Is this what you want to do?

Ramona

 

Nicknames

Hi Ramona --

Thanks for the reply.

When I disable the function you described, then Netscape no longer recognizes any of the nicknames in the address book -- I'm then stuck with having to type in the address completely. It seems as if there are only two options: (1) no shortcuts to completing addresses or (2) full autocompletion. What I'd like would be a third option that would recreate the way Netscape 4.7.4 worked: namely, that typing in a nickname would bring up one and only one address that corresponded precisely to that nickname. Is there some way that this can be done in Netcape 7.1?

PLS

 

pls,

Unfortunaetly I have never used NS 4.7x, so I do not know how it worked.

In NS 7.1 and Moz, auto complete of addresses only seems to search based on first, last or displayed name.

I believe that it will look in ALL local address books, but I am not certain -

But I could be wrong.

regards:captjlddavis

 

Hi pls

I never use this field, except for "memo/notes ". My niece's first name is Michelle, which is listed in first name field. Her life long Nickname is "Shelly ", which I had in the nickname field.
In Mozilla 1.5
I Opened Personnel address book.
In the "header bar" for address book, I clicked on "Nickname "
File is now being sorted by "NickName ".
I opened composer, typed in " Sh " and immediately Michelle's account was on top of the list. The only place in her file where them two letters appeared was in nickname.
Try it out, see if it works for you. I have approximately 100 + accounts in P.A.B. Keep in mind, only dozen had anything in nickname field.

 

Dennis,

I stand corrected, it seems to works as you say in Moz 1.5f and NS7.1

Learn something new every day.



regards:

 

Trust me "capt ", we both did. Did not have a clue if it would work until I tried it.
Throw back to my IBM Query days... You need high order sort to hit hard on the field.

 

Dennis,

Now you have me totally lost. I do not have "nickname" displayed at all ( if we are talking about the same thing-right panel in addressbook window ?)

And it still seems to work after a fashion.

I added a couple of "nicknames" to existing entries - and typed first couple of letters - auto dropdown came up with a couple of entries and I picked the one I new was the one I wanted....

There were several entries to pick from. So I guess that it is working ?????

Thanks again for the info.

regards:

 

Hi Capt'

Your right... re-checked
Sort on "Address book View" is just that, a view of a sort.
When in "Composer" it sorts the entire string starting with... Name | email address.... full left to right reads. I have 5 addresses for myself. When I type in "De" they all appear and have sort breaks when the "domain name" changes. Example I have two charter.net accounts, they are listed next to each other and sit on top of the list. They carry the same NAME, but differ on prefix of the email address but have the same domain. They are "Highest on the list" because of the Charter domain... even when other domains like Hotmail shares the same NAME and prefix EMAIL name as one of the charter accounts. To do the "Nickname" sort from an "Alpha" is going to be tough. I'm not sure what the NEXT field(s) the program reads "from left to right ". There was one trick I was able to "force" in the nickname field. From an ascending sort "Numerics are higher than alpha ". For my 5 mail accounts, I put in 1 through 5 in order of preference of use. When I inputed any of the individual numbers, ONLY that address displayed to the screen. This is going require a "hack" to put Nickname "primary" or memory lessons to remember what "number" you assigned to 5 different "Johns" in your nickname field. NOW maybe...?... Let's say you had 2x Franks, 2x John's and pray tell " 3x Ramona's" (can the world handle this). You could try F1, F2 for Frank calls, J1, J2 for John calls and for the "Ramona's ... I have the name of a psychiatrist and my sympathy.

 

Dennis,

Enough already..... (kidding)

Let's just let this die a natural death, and say it works after a fashion......

Thanks again.

regards:

 

Thanks

Dennis --

Thanks for the help -- adding numerals after my two-letter codes helps (though you're right -- remembering who is who may be a challenge . . .).

Peter