Alphabetical mix up - first name last name order

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Dana - 16 Feb 2007 19:26 GMT

After exporting contacts from Outlook Express to Outlook, many, but not all,
of my contacts were listed first name last name rather than last name first
name. In Outlook, when I open a particular contact, open the "Full Name"
field and straighten out the order, the Full Name still appears backwards! I
can manually fix each "file as", but I cannot seem to fix the "Full Name"
field.

What did I do incorrectly?

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Peter Marchert - 16 Feb 2007 20:58 GMT

Sorry, my English is not the best, but I think you can fix this by
using

"EditContacts": http://www.marchert.de/software.html#ec

and/or

"ChangeNames": http://www.marchert.de/software.html#cn

Peter

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Programming for Excel and Outlook

> After exporting contacts from Outlook Express to Outlook, many, but not all,
> of my contacts were listed first name last name rather than last name first
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Dana - 16 Feb 2007 21:10 GMT

Thank you. I will try it!

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> Sorry, my English is not the best, but I think you can fix this by
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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 16 Feb 2007 22:07 GMT

What format did you specify for the Full Name field?

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> After exporting contacts from Outlook Express to Outlook, many, but not
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themurf - 18 Feb 2007 19:26 GMT

Russ, Your response brings up a question that I have just run across. when
sending an email, clicking on the "To" button brings up a for of "Address
Book". The first column is the "Full Name" field from the respective Contact
folder. This field is sorted by first name rather than last name. I have
checked "Help" and the community but can not find how to either change the
column to "File As" or other one that shows to Last name first and sorted by
last name. It is impossible to read the currend column when the list is very
long. Please advise me how to get the proper format showing. Thanks, Jim

> What format did you specify for the Full Name field?
> > After exporting contacts from Outlook Express to Outlook, many, but not
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Brian Tillman - 18 Feb 2007 20:33 GMT

> Russ, Your response brings up a question that I have just run across.
> when sending an email, clicking on the "To" button brings up a for of
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> read the currend column when the list is very long. Please advise me
> how to get the proper format showing. Thanks, Jim

Tools>E-mail Accounts>View or change existing directories or address
books>Next. Select Outlook Address Book, click Change. Set the Address
Book sort order there.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 18 Feb 2007 20:45 GMT

The First column is not the "Full Name" field. It is the Name field and its
format can be in one of two formats: "First, Last" or "File As..." depending
on what you specified here:
Tools > E-mail accounts > View or change existing directories or address
books > Outlook Address Book > Change… >

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> Russ, Your response brings up a question that I have just run across. when
> sending an email, clicking on the "To" button brings up a for of "Address
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themurf - 18 Feb 2007 21:26 GMT

Russ, That is what I though as well but I have run into a brick wall. I am
running into a brick wall. I am runing Outlook07 as a part of Office07 on two
machines. One is running XP Pro and the other Vista Home. The response is the
same.

First, the instrunctions you gave me are not exactly right for this version
of Outlook. I do not have Outlook03 running anywhere so I can't check to see
if the steps you sent coincide wiht that version or not.

Tools:Account Settings:Address Books:Outlook Address Book gets you to the
right place for this setting. There is indeed a choice however either
selectin brings up the address book with the names sorted by their first
name. I get exactly the same response on both computers. Either there is a
glitch in the new version or there is another conditional setting somewhere.
Let me know. Thanks, Jim

> The First column is not the "Full Name" field. It is the Name field and its
> format can be in one of two formats: "First, Last" or "File As..." depending
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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 18 Feb 2007 22:56 GMT

Two possibilities:
1. Your File As... field is in First Last format-- so nothing would change
2. You have not restarted Outlook so your changes would take effect.

The path in Outlook 2007 is indeed slightly different (you never bothered to
specify your version and you always should).

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> Russ, That is what I though as well but I have run into a brick wall. I am
> running into a brick wall. I am runing Outlook07 as a part of Office07 on
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