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Display WinXP Address Book in Last Name Order
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. |
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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 ... 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. |
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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 ... 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. |
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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 news 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 ... 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. |
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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 news 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 ... 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. |
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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. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Dennis Boone" wrote in message ... 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 news 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 ... 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. |
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