Outlook 2000: Retrospectively changing order of "file as" in Contacts?

[Jamie Furlong]

Problem: 600 contacts, all of them "filed as" "last, firstname".
They need to be "first, lastname". So I changed preferences, logged off
(as per suggestions on the net) and restarted, but still they remain
"last, first". Apart from changing everyone manually (impossible) is
there any other way to make this mass change?

Thanks

 

[Brian Tillman]

Problem: 600 contacts, all of them "filed as" "last, firstname".
They need to be "first, lastname". So I changed preferences, logged
off (as per suggestions on the net) and restarted, but still they
remain "last, first". Apart from changing everyone manually
(impossible) is there any other way to make this mass change?

There are tools that will change the values for you. See this, for example:
http://www.outlook-stuff.com/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/gid,1/Itemid,2/

 

[Jamie Furlong]

There are tools that will change the values for you. See this, for
example:
http://www.outlook-stuff.com/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/gid,1/Itemid,2/

Many thanks - that worked well. I had to read the FAQ to discover why it
kept freezing though - you can't manage more than 30 contacts at a time
if using the "apply to selected contacts" option. I just applied it to
the whole folder instead and it was fine.