You're talking about the Address Book, which is just a different view of
your Contacts folder, but as you've discovered, it does have a different
setting for the display order. We need to know your Outlook version to
help you further, though, and if you're using Outlook 98 or 2000, we
need to know if you have it configured in Internet Mail Only or
Corporate/Workgroup mode.

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> In the menu bar of Outlook, you have an icon which looks
> like an open book; I click on it to display my contacts.
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> of the "Display As" format and in ascending order. How
> can I program my contacts to file as I wish?