The Inbox and other folders allow sorting by clicking on each column header.  
It is utterly ridiculous that the address book doesn't .....sheeeeeeeesh!!!!!
It is the most frustrating TIME WASTER to have to scan every single email
address in the address book to find one.

Reinstalled Outlook 2003 in a new computerand it won't look for contacts when
I click in a new message "TO" button. When I click on "TO" button it
automatically comes up with the "Show Names from the" window set to OAL. I
can manually reset this to "Contacts" but it doesn't show ...

I have a contact to add whose last name is "Eng" - Outlook refuses to fill in
the "File As" field with anything, as if "Eng" is some sort of switch or
option in the contact name field rather than the actual last name. I added an
"x" to the end of the name and it works - does ...

I want to be able to look at, add and edit contact details on Outlook, using
my laptop downstairs.  The main computer upstairs holds all the information
on Outlook XP, the laptop downstairs has Outlook 2003.  We have connected the
two computers for internet and file use, using an ...

can anyone tell me how I fix the problem?

I inadvertantly deleted by outlook address book labeled "contacts". I konw
that the information is still available, but Outlook will not pull it up when
I click onto the adress book icon. How do I retrieve this information?

Recently started using a PDA and had to upgrade my Outlook.  In doing so I am
unable to use my email address book.  Instead an error message appears "Can't
Contact LDAP Directory Server (81)".  Eventually the list can be found under
"Contacts"

Why do I lose email addresses that I know I've put into Contacts?  It is
disconcerting when I have to do an additional lookup and worse when I don't
have the address.