When you click on the To: field in an Outlook New Message Window, you are
opening the Outlook Address Book, not the Windows Address Book.
There is no connection between the two.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Dennis Boone" wrote in message
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Have already done that, but I'll check it again. The Windows Address Book
is
linked to (or at least shares Outlook Contacts info) with Outlook. When
using Outlook email to address email messages, if you click on the To
line,
the Address Book Window opens. There is a field, as I recall, that says
"Display Names From" and in that field the "Contacts Folder" is selected.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

The Outlook Address Book is in no way linked to the Windows Address Book
in
any of the currently supported versions of Outlook.
Go to Tools E-mail accounts View or change existing directories or
address books Outlook Address Book Change. Set your sort order
there

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Dennis Boone" wrote in message
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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?
--
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.