Contacts/Address Book company sort?

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Bill W

Is there any way to format the Outlook Address book to
sort the entries (from Contacts) by the company name?
I am using Outlook for business, which I thought what it
is for. My old 2000 Outlook worked fine in this way. I
feel like I working with Outlook express and certainly
not what I expected.

Thanks for any help.
 
Use Contacts and Action, Send new message to when you need to find contacts
by company.

(It sounds like you used Outlook 2000 in Internet mode - it's address book
had some features not available in the corporate version, which is where
many of the features in OL2002/2003 came from.)
 
I actually did use 2000 Corporate, not internet only.
When I would start an new mail message and clicked "TO"
it would open the address book and would be sorted by
company. The way 2003 works, it doesn't seem like a
professional way to do it, I could use the free Outlook
Express and get the same features.

There has to be a better way.

Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
Use Contacts and Action, Send new message to when you need to find contacts
by company.

(It sounds like you used Outlook 2000 in Internet mode - it's address book
had some features not available in the corporate version, which is where
many of the features in OL2002/2003 came from.)

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)


Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com


Is there any way to format the Outlook Address book to
sort the entries (from Contacts) by the company name?
I am using Outlook for business, which I thought what it
is for. My old 2000 Outlook worked fine in this way. I
feel like I working with Outlook express and certainly
not what I expected.

Thanks for any help.
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Um... if you could sort you used IMO mode...

Why not let autoresolution find the addresses for you? Type the first few
letters of a name and outlook finds all the matches for you- if it finds too
many matches, right click on the letters to choose the right person.

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I actually did use 2000 Corporate, not internet only.
When I would start an new mail message and clicked "TO"
it would open the address book and would be sorted by
company. The way 2003 works, it doesn't seem like a
professional way to do it, I could use the free Outlook
Express and get the same features.

There has to be a better way.

Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
Use Contacts and Action, Send new message to when you need to find contacts
by company.

(It sounds like you used Outlook 2000 in Internet mode - it's address book
had some features not available in the corporate version, which is where
many of the features in OL2002/2003 came from.)

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)


Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com


Is there any way to format the Outlook Address book to
sort the entries (from Contacts) by the company name?
I am using Outlook for business, which I thought what it
is for. My old 2000 Outlook worked fine in this way. I
feel like I working with Outlook express and certainly
not what I expected.

Thanks for any help.
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This setting did not change in Outlook 2003. You must have changed your
configuration.
To sort the Outlook Address Book by the Company field:
1. Set your Contacts' File As fields to show the company name first
2. Sort the Outlook Address Book by the File As field. 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 actually did use 2000 Corporate, not internet only.
When I would start an new mail message and clicked "TO"
it would open the address book and would be sorted by
company. The way 2003 works, it doesn't seem like a
professional way to do it, I could use the free Outlook
Express and get the same features.

There has to be a better way.

Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
Use Contacts and Action, Send new message to when you need to find contacts
by company.

(It sounds like you used Outlook 2000 in Internet mode - it's address book
had some features not available in the corporate version, which is where
many of the features in OL2002/2003 came from.)

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)


Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com


Is there any way to format the Outlook Address book to
sort the entries (from Contacts) by the company name?
I am using Outlook for business, which I thought what it
is for. My old 2000 Outlook worked fine in this way. I
feel like I working with Outlook express and certainly
not what I expected.

Thanks for any help.
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That sounds fine, and I use that feature, but I don't
remember all my contacts names. I need to go by the
company then I can find them.
I did the change as listed from the "MVP" reply, I
already had my contacts set for the company sort, but
after I changed the address book to sort by last name,
then it came up with the company like I need.

Thanks for all the help.

Bill W.
-----Original Message-----
Um... if you could sort you used IMO mode...

Why not let autoresolution find the addresses for you? Type the first few
letters of a name and outlook finds all the matches for you- if it finds too
many matches, right click on the letters to choose the right person.

--

I actually did use 2000 Corporate, not internet only.
When I would start an new mail message and clicked "TO"
it would open the address book and would be sorted by
company. The way 2003 works, it doesn't seem like a
professional way to do it, I could use the free Outlook
Express and get the same features.

There has to be a better way.

Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
Use Contacts and Action, Send new message to when you need to find contacts
by company.

(It sounds like you used Outlook 2000 in Internet
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mode -
it's address book
had some features not available in the corporate version, which is where
many of the features in OL2002/2003 came from.)

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)


Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com


Is there any way to format the Outlook Address book to
sort the entries (from Contacts) by the company name?
I am using Outlook for business, which I thought what it
is for. My old 2000 Outlook worked fine in this way. I
feel like I working with Outlook express and certainly
not what I expected.

Thanks for any help.


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