> Outlook provide several methods to display a contact:
> [company],[surname],[first name] etc, but when using using 'select
> names' to add a contact to an email recipient list, the contact view
> and sort order is always [first name] [last name]. It would be
> really helpful if the select names format and sort order matched the
> contact display options.
What's stopping you? Click Tools>E-mail Accounts>View or change existing
directories or address books>Next. Select the Outlook Address Book
services, click Change, and set the sort order at the bottom or that
dialogue.

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Brian Tillman
kjwarnold - 30 Dec 2005 04:39 GMT
I'm using Outlook 2002 and I'm having the same problem. I just tried what
you suggested and it hasn't changed the order the names appear when I'm
adding them to an e-mail recipient list.
> > Outlook provide several methods to display a contact:
> > [company],[surname],[first name] etc, but when using using 'select
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> services, click Change, and set the sort order at the bottom or that
> dialogue.
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 30 Dec 2005 09:35 GMT
Did you restart Outlook?

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
> I'm using Outlook 2002 and I'm having the same problem. I just tried what
> you suggested and it hasn't changed the order the names appear when I'm
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>> services, click Change, and set the sort order at the bottom or that
>> dialogue.