Unlike other desktop email clients I have used, Outlook seems to have its own unique way of autocompleting email addresses. (I am using Outlook 2013, but I think this is true also of earlier versions.)

Thus, although I have a gmail account set up with IMAP, and I imported all the contacts, I still can't get the autocomplete to work the way I am used to in native Gmail.



For instance, I have a contact "ymkag...@gmail.com". In Gmail, I type "kag", and the address fills in. But in Outlook, I have to type ymk. This means I have to always remember the first few letters (or numbers) that a email begins with. That's a lot to remember!

The only way I can type "kag" and get a result is by going to advanced search, and that's a lot of trouble to go through every time I want to shoot off a message.

How can I get Outlook 2013 to behave like Gmail, in this respect?