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dimitris02 - 17 Feb 2008 02:14 GMT

I imported my contacts to my new computer's Outlook 2003 and although in my
old computer everything was fine (same version of Outlook), i found out that
in the new one, the "Display as" field had changed to "LastName, FirstName"
format. I tried to change it manualy for each contact to "FirstName LastName"
by deleting everything in the display as field and pressing the tab button
but it didn't work. Is there a way to fix this?

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 17 Feb 2008 11:08 GMT

This is one of the many reasons you never import Outlook data.
To change the File As... field for existing Contacts you will have to run
code.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;291144&Product=ol2002

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Russ Valentine
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>I imported my contacts to my new computer's Outlook 2003 and although in my
> old computer everything was fine (same version of Outlook), i found out
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> by deleting everything in the display as field and pressing the tab button
> but it didn't work. Is there a way to fix this?

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