Outlook should not sort the liste of children in alpha order

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jfn - 01 May 2006 08:25 GMT

I like to save the firstnames of children of my contacts when they are born,
and Outlook automatically changes the order of the list to alphabetical
order, so that I cannot remember their order.

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William Lefkovics [MVP] - 01 May 2006 12:02 GMT

Outlook provides many different ways to present your contact information. I
suspect alphabetical order is what most users want.

But you can control the sort view here:
View-->Current View-->Customize Current View-->Sort

You can even customize a view to sort by birthday.

>I like to save the firstnames of children of my contacts when they are
>born,
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> http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=870e8a9e-ebe2-4
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jfn - 01 May 2006 12:24 GMT

Thanks for your answer but I'm afraid you didn't get my point : my concern is
not the order between contacts but the order between firstnames in the
children field of a contact.

Regards,

JFN

> Outlook provides many different ways to present your contact information. I
> suspect alphabetical order is what most users want.
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> > http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=870e8a9e-ebe2-4
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Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook] - 01 May 2006 12:02 GMT

Add their ages to the front of their names, padded with zeroes (01, 02,
etc). That way the list will be sorted by age lowest to highest

>I like to save the firstnames of children of my contacts when they are
>born,
> and Outlook automatically changes the order of the list to alphabetical
> order, so that I cannot remember their order.

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jfn - 01 May 2006 12:25 GMT

Good idea ! or rather with the birth year, that's more stable !

But I still can't see why Outlook should sort !

Regards,

JFN

> Add their ages to the front of their names, padded with zeroes (01, 02,
> etc). That way the list will be sorted by age lowest to highest
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> > and Outlook automatically changes the order of the list to alphabetical
> > order, so that I cannot remember their order.

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