change Display As in all Contacts outlook 2003

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I would like to change the Display As entry for All Contacts .
currently it shows the name and then the email address in brackets, but
would prefer it to show the Name or the File As name

Is there any way I can change the lot without having to manually do that??

Sue
 
Russ said:
No way to do so unless you want to write code.
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shame..
Im not a coder, and in the long run may be quicker to do it manually
rather than try and code it.

Sue
 
I haven't seen anyone that's written any code samples to do this either. It
's not a very frequent request since the Display As field is of so little
consequence.
 
All Sent messages are sorted for me by the Display As field. This is a
pain when you are mixing personal contacts with a global address book,
where the personal contacts show up First Last and the global show up
Last, First. Add to that the fact that MS keeps changing the format of
the Display As field with each new version, and everything is jumbled
together with no consistency.

I suppose this would be less of a problem if you could sort your
messages alphabetically on a field other than "Display As", but I
haven't found a way to do that.

This is something that MS clearly needs to address in the next version
of Outlook. The "File As" option for sorting contacts was a good
start, but it only does half the job.

I haven't seen anyone that's written any code samples to do this either. It
's not a very frequent request since the Display As field is of so little
consequence.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Data Design said:
shame..
Im not a coder, and in the long run may be quicker to do it manually
rather than try and code it.

Sue
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You should be able to add any field you want to the columns in your Sent
Items Folder, then sort by that field.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
HurricaneDavid said:
All Sent messages are sorted for me by the Display As field. This is a
pain when you are mixing personal contacts with a global address book,
where the personal contacts show up First Last and the global show up
Last, First. Add to that the fact that MS keeps changing the format of
the Display As field with each new version, and everything is jumbled
together with no consistency.

I suppose this would be less of a problem if you could sort your
messages alphabetically on a field other than "Display As", but I
haven't found a way to do that.

This is something that MS clearly needs to address in the next version
of Outlook. The "File As" option for sorting contacts was a good
start, but it only does half the job.

I haven't seen anyone that's written any code samples to do this either. It
's not a very frequent request since the Display As field is of so little
consequence.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Data Design said:
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:

No way to do so unless you want to write code.

shame..
Im not a coder, and in the long run may be quicker to do it manually
rather than try and code it.

Sue
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What other address fields similar to "from" would produce the desired
effect? I'm not finding any.
 
You've lost me. Why would you need the from field in the Sent Items folder?
You already know who sent the messages. I don't understand what you need to
do.
 
I mean the "To" field in the Sent folder. If you sort by the "To"
field, the messages are not sorted consistently. For example, messages
sent to John Doe could show up with 3 different results in the "To"
field: "Doe, John", "John Doe", and "(e-mail address removed)". The crux of the
problem IS the "Display as" field, which has changed throughout
Outlook's existence. MS needs to find a way to let the user customize
the default "Display as" format, if they are going to pre-populate it.
 
There is no one single source for the Display As field. It is a derived
field so it will never have a consistent format. It may well take its format
from the email header of a message to which you are replying.
 
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