Show contact - Last Name, First Name

  • Thread starter Thread starter Fred
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Fred said:
In the contact folder, the listing format is Last Name, First Name,
but when I do a new email and click "TO" the listing format is First
Name Last Name.

I did the change "Sort the Contacts list by the File As field" like
said here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA010565141033.aspx

But got the same problem for the "TO".

Running OUTLOOK 2003
Click to expand...

Tools>E-mail Accounts>View or change existing directories or address
books>Next. Select Outlook Address Book. Click Change. Set the sort order
there. You may have to stop and restart Outlook for it to take effect.
 
Thank you Brian Tillman. Russ Valentine is not at all helpful with his
arogant attitude. I don't care if he is an MSVP and there are 2450 posts on
this subject. I've been using MS OUTLOOK for 10 years and with Office Outlook
2007 I've been having a difficult time getting the LAST, FIRST Names in the
TO: GUI box despite the fact that the Contacts are listed Last, First in my
Address Book. It is just simply not that obbvious. Anyway, your suggestion of
closing OUTLOOK and restarting it was the KEY. BTW, this feature should have
been designed into the OPTIONS---> PREFERENCES----->CONTACTS to begin with
then there wouldn't have been 2450 posts on this subject. One's CONTACTS has
nothing directly to do with the TOOLS--->EMAIL Accounts feature.
 
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