Hi,

Is there a way to get the Address Book, ah I mean Contacts in Windows Mail
to list by last name instead of first name?

TIA

SDR

open one of your contacts -> Name and E-mail -> Full Name -> pick one that
has last name first -> OK
sad thing is, that you need to do this for every contact you have...


"SDR" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to get the Address Book, ah I mean Contacts in Windows Mail
> to list by last name instead of first name?
>
> TIA
>
> SDR

Thanks I see that now, glad it's raining out side, give me something to do.

SDR


"Maketee" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> open one of your contacts -> Name and E-mail -> Full Name -> pick one that
> has last name first -> OK
> sad thing is, that you need to do this for every contact you have...
>
>
> "SDR" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way to get the Address Book, ah I mean Contacts in Windows
>> Mail to list by last name instead of first name?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> SDR
>

"SDR" wrote:

Yes there is, but like everything else in Vista, it's much more work than in
Windows XP!

With your contacts showing, make sure that the columns displayed include the
last name and first name fields. To do this, right click on the column
headers and then click on those fields to turn them on. If they don't show in
the "short list", click more, navigate down thru the million <grin> field
choices, and check each of them.

Now, you will have those fields listed as a column each and you can sort on
them. Of course, you do have to make each entry show those names separately.
I show the full name and each of first and last names, among other items. I
also found that some characters, such as quote marks around a nickname, are
very distasteful to Windows Contacts and the entire handling is much clunkier
than Windows Address Book.

Incidentally, I have tried to run WAB under Vista and it just brings up the
contacts.

JERRY


> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to get the Address Book, ah I mean Contacts in Windows Mail
> to list by last name instead of first name?
>
> TIA
>
> SDR
>
>