Alphabetizing

[murjone]

When you click on the TO in an new e-mail message the contact list
comes up. Is there anyway to get the list to come up alphabetizing by
the last name and not the first name. This was possible on older
versions of Outlook.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Go to Control Panel-> Mail-> E-mail Accounts-> View or change existing
directories or address books-> select Outlook Address Book-> Change.
At the bottom you can set the way the names are sorted.

 

[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

And by the way - do you know you can just type in the To.. field and Outlook
will go find the person for you? Cltrl K will check the name immediately
(as will the check names button) or wait and it will resolve soon - then it
is underlined to show that Outlook found the address.

I see many people use the To.. button needlessly in training courses.

I hope this helps you at least a little bit!

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook
www.acorntraining.com.au
Canberra, Australia

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we
can find information on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson

Go to Control Panel-> Mail-> E-mail Accounts-> View or change existing
directories or address books-> select Outlook Address Book-> Change.
At the bottom you can set the way the names are sorted.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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When you click on the TO in an new e-mail message the contact list
comes up. Is there anyway to get the list to come up alphabetizing by
the last name and not the first name. This was possible on older
versions of Outlook.