Hello,

In Outlook 2002, the Select Members window presents contact names in a
scroll list in a First Name Last Name format.  (The Select Members window
can most easily be seen by creating a distribution list and clicking the
"Select Members..." button).  When the names are in this First Last format,
you are unable to use the text entry box labelled "Type Name or ..." by
typing in the first few characters of a contact's last name.  This is most
annoying.

I have exhausted all of the obvious places where you have some control over
how names are presented.  None of these have made a difference.

I have noticed one other item of interest.  If you look at the field titled
Distribution List Name (look under All Fields, All Distribution List Fields)
for a contact you will find an automatically generated version of the
contact name which is in the First Last format.  If you modify this to be
"Last, First" and Save/Close the contact and go back to see the name again
you will find that your change is discarded and it is back to "First Last".

It appears as if Outlook is automatically generating the way a name should
be used in the Select Members window as well as in other places.  Can this
be changed?

I would like the names to appear in the Select Members window as "Last,
First" so that I can type in the first few characters of a contact's last
name with desirable results.

Thanks in advance,

Kevin.