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title: How to delete wrong email addresses from Outlooks auto-suggestions
description: Have you accidentally sent an email to the wrong email address and now it keeps popping up in the auto-suggestions? Here is how you delete them!
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# [How to delete wrong email addresses from Outlooks auto-suggestions](https://www.empowersuite.com/en/blog/delete-wrong-email-address-outlook-auto-suggestions)

 Written by [Katharina Kampen](https://www.empowersuite.com/en/blog/author/katharina-kampen) | February 6, 2015

When typing in the address of the authorized recipient of an email, Outlook makes automatic suggestions. Once you have misspelled an email address and sent it, this wrong e-mail address continues to show up as a suggestion in the drop-down menu. This means that you run the repeated risk of sending important emails to the wrong email address.

## Follow these steps to permanently remove an incorrect auto-suggestion in Outlook

1. Open a new e-mail
2. Write the beginning of the name of the recipient in the *"To"* field.
3. When the unwanted suggestion appears, press the *"Down Arrow"* key until you select the wrong email address.
4. Then press *"delete"* on your keyboard or click the *"x"* on the right side of the list.

The result: the wrong email address will no longer be suggested.

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