


The conditions to when you are being offered this pop-up is similar to the F3 method As soon as you have typed the part of the name until it becomes unique, the pop-up will show and you can just press ENTER. “Thank you”, you must at least type “thank “ before pressing F3 will AutoComplete the Quick Part (note the space behind “thank”).Īs mentioned already, the “Press ENTER to Insert” pop-up suggestion has returned in Outlook 2016.“Thanks for your feedback”, you must at least type “thanks” before pressing F3 to insert the Quick Part.“Regards”, you can just type the letter “r” and press F3 to insert the entire Quick Part.You only have to type the part of the name until it becomes unique when compared to other names of your Quick Part.Īssume you have 3 Quick Part entries named In most cases, it is not needed to type the entire name of the Quick Part. Inserting Quick Parts by name by using F3 The name of a Quick Part is important to AutoComplete it. In Outlook and Word 2007, 20, to AutoComplete a Quick Part, you’ll have to press F3 when typing the name of your saved Quick Part and there is no more pop-up suggestion.

In Outlook and Word 2003, there was an AutoComplete feature for AutoText entries that worked with a pop-up suggestion similarly as displayed above. The pop-up suggestion feature has been reinstated in Outlook 2016 and also supports the F3 method as explained below.ĪutoComplete for Quick Parts is back again but you can also still use F3. However, there is another way to quickly insert Quick Parts by their name and pressing F3 in these versions. The same with my address, I just typed the number of my street and it automatically completed it.ĭid I somehow turn off this feature? How do I get it back?ĪutoCompleting Quick Parts in Outlook and Word 2007, 20 can’t be done with the “Press ENTER to Insert” pop-up suggestion. I seem to recall that when I for instance typed my name “Jane Doe”, after typing Jane I just hit the ENTER key and it automatically typed out Doe for me. I’m quite a fervent user of templates such as Quick Parts and AutoText, however, I have a feeling that something is missing.
