No I didn't do that. It's my understanding that the Outlook 2003 Contacts is
linked to the Windows Address Book, at least it was in earlier versions of
Outlook. Has this changed? If the names list that opens when I click on the
Address Book icon in Outlook or when trying to address an email message in
Outlook is not the Windows Address Book then what is it? It doesn't really
matter, though. All I'm trying to do is get that names list to list the
names in alphabetical order by lastname just like the entries in Contacts are
displayed. I have the "File As" set to lastname,firstname format, but this
only seems to affect the Contacts entries in Outlook and not the entries that
are displayed when you're trying to locate names for an email addressee.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

The Windows Address Book has nothing to do with Outlook unless you made a
very specific registry hack to force it to use Outlook instead of its own
data source. Did you do that?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Dennis Boone" wrote in message
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Does anyone know how to get the WinXP Pro Address Book to display its
entries
by LastName, Firstname order? I'm using the MS Office Outlook 2003
Contacts
with WinXP Pro. The "File As" field in Outlook is set for
Lastname,Firstname
order, but the Windows Address Book still displays some entries when
composing an email message in the "firstname,lastname" order rather than
by
"lastname,firstname" order. This makes it difficult to retrieve contact
information when addressing email.