address book searching on first name instead of last name

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I exported my personal folders from an old machine running
Outlook 2000 SP-3 to a new machine running Outlook 2003.

The address book came across with all entries and looks
fine...but when I go into the address book to send an
email and type the name of the contact I want to select,
it tries to match on first name...in Outlook 2000, it
searched last name and that is much better for me. I
never know whether I entered a nickname or just a first
initial but the last name is always there in full. this
makes the program very hard to use.

Any ideas?
 
Did you set it correctly? Tools > E-mail accounts > View or change existing
directories or address books > Outlook Address Book > Change. > Set your
sort order there
 
That did it. Thank you. I must be getting old. Microsoft
stuff rarely seems logical to me. I would have expected to
be able to change the sort order of my address book from
the address book...not from email account...
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Did you set it correctly? Tools > E-mail accounts > View or change existing
directories or address books > Outlook Address Book > Change. > Set your
sort order there

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I exported my personal folders from an old machine running
Outlook 2000 SP-3 to a new machine running Outlook 2003.

The address book came across with all entries and looks
fine...but when I go into the address book to send an
email and type the name of the contact I want to select,
it tries to match on first name...in Outlook 2000, it
searched last name and that is much better for me. I
never know whether I entered a nickname or just a first
initial but the last name is always there in full. this
makes the program very hard to use.

Any ideas?
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It gets worse. The method to change the sort order changes with every
version.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
That did it. Thank you. I must be getting old. Microsoft
stuff rarely seems logical to me. I would have expected to
be able to change the sort order of my address book from
the address book...not from email account...
-----Original Message-----
Did you set it correctly? Tools > E-mail accounts > View or change existing
directories or address books > Outlook Address Book > Change. > Set your
sort order there

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I exported my personal folders from an old machine running
Outlook 2000 SP-3 to a new machine running Outlook 2003.

The address book came across with all entries and looks
fine...but when I go into the address book to send an
email and type the name of the contact I want to select,
it tries to match on first name...in Outlook 2000, it
searched last name and that is much better for me. I
never know whether I entered a nickname or just a first
initial but the last name is always there in full. this
makes the program very hard to use.

Any ideas?
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